Musee d’Orsay

I finally made it to the Musee d’Orsay today, and am glad to have done so although the security line was rather gnarly.  The building actually used to be a gorgeous train station that ceased to be so several decades ago.

It came very close to a wrecking ball in the seventies, but in the eighties it was decided that it would be the perfect place to store late nineteenth/early twentieth century works that were crowded in the Louvre.  This museum is best known for its realist and impressionist works by Manet, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec to name a few.

It was awesome to finally see the original version of the prints everyone had hanging in their college dorm rooms.  Although the Louvre is so damned impressive, I liked this museum better for its style of art and mellow atmosphere.  Later in the evening, we met Blake, Andrea and Nancy, (Andrea’s aunt), for Nancy’s 64th birthday.

We ate dinner at Nos Ancetres Les Gaulois, a restaurant much in the same style of the dinner Jason and I had a few weeks back where we cut the vegetables and salami meats.

Incidentally, it was right next door.  Small world.

Anyway, tomorrow Jason and I head to Geneva, Switzerland to check out some festival.  We’re not really sure what to expect but I’m sure we’ll enjoy it no matter what.  See you on Sunday!  (Unless I find some extra time tomorrow to post a blog before we leave, but no promises).

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