Perhaps it is not the most jovial of songs for a Monday morning but nothing greets the beginning of a new week as beautifully as the voice of La Diva herself, Maria Callas. On this Monday morning, I’m embracing the week ahead with one of 90 performances that Callas did of “Casta Diva”. I so…
Month: October 2011
Museums and monuments open in Paris on All Saints Day 2011
Tomorrow is All Saints Day an hopefully there will be enough time to profit from the museums and other things that will be open then. Luckily, I bumped into a list of options of museums and monuments that are going to be open despite it being a public holiday. So I put together a list,…
Chateau de Vincennes
Well, my love for the Middle Ages was further expressed though a visit to the Chåteau de Vincennes, which has consistently played an important part in French history since its construction. Perhaps not so much in the country’s most recent history – but from the times of Saint Louis to I guess the mid 19th…
Musée de Cluny – Positively Medieval
Visited this museum as part of a late Sunday afternoon activity with my beloved – and several things can be said about it: As a place that hosts quite an impressive collection of instructive views into the medieval past, something that vey few museums can offer on the scale of this national museum of the…
Inside the Sorbonne
The historical building of ‘la Sorbonne’ is quite an enriching place to visit – not only for the architecture but also because the building seems to reflect (in different ways) the history of Paris as a whole. It is not always open to the public, but it is worth a visit if one has the…
Back from Brussels and Blogging Again
Ok, so Brussels completely exceeded my expectations. Some would argue that this was not so much of a difficult task, the bar was pretty low to begin with. I mean, after spending time in Paris – and being as smitten as I am about this beautiful city – I left for Brussels with an acute…
Anon's Paris 