“The Last Supper”
It is 12:43 AM and it is now April 17 and I am looking at my bed knowing that I need to go there and sleep, but when I wake I will be focused on heading to Charles de Gaulle airport to get on that Air France plane and leave this place. I am anxious for my own bed, my friends in Santa Fe and the Tuesday night Blues Jam at El Farol, but I am going to miss Paris. I had a great walk-about this evening along the Seine and the little cream...
“The Quarter” in Montparnasse
My last FB post was a short video of the Saturday night activities at the Trocadero overlooking the Eiffel Tower, but the Paris nights seem to go on and on. After I took that video I jumped on the Metro and headed for “The Quarter” in Montparnasse. I emerged from the subway at the Montparnasse tower for a great view of Paris and the Eiffel Tower from the observation deck 60 floors up. ...
The Mystery of the Côte d’Azur
My 10-day passage from Paris to the south has been dreamlike and as I took that last walk along the beach in Nice I was at peace. I am not exactly sure I knew what peace felt like until that moment. I know that is a pretty serious thing for a 72 year old man to say, but life is good right now for me and the feeling was very real. I am sure the sound and the rhythm of the waves, the blueness of the sea and the warmth of the...
A Day Full of Intense Emotions with Vincent and Pablo
I started the day by walking from my hotel in Saint Remy to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole Hospital on the edge of town. It was a short distance, but it was a long journey. I have thought about visiting this place for some time and I have known it would be powerful. This was the asylum that Vincent Van Gogh committed himself to after the ear incident in Arles. Many of you know I am a huge fan of his and that I am frustrated with the...
I will Never Understand the Food in Paris
Every time I come to Paris I find myself somehow confused by the food. If you have been here I am sure you have tried to tell people about it or you have listened to people talk about the food here. Before my first trip to Paris I felt like “Yeh, I get it the food it good, but I mean how good can it be?” Then I started eating the food In Paris and that is when I began to wonder. How do they do this? I have had ceviche...
It’s So Good to be Back in Paris
I am so excited to be back in Paris settled in my favorite neighborhood in Saint Germain des Pres. My apartment is in the heart of the Buci market at 4, rue de Buci. I like “quaint” like the next person, but in a “nice place to visit, but I would not want to live there” kind of way. I love the excitement and the energy of my neighborhood and if someone says they know of an apartment on a quiet little street...
The Spectacular European Art Fair in Maastricht
I just reread the blogs I wrote about TEFAF in Maastricht over the last two years and I am not sure what to say anymore. I been fortunate to have had many great experiences in my life and I feel I have been able to aptly express my thoughts and emotions about those times, but I seem to have some difficulty clarifying my impressions of this phenomenon known as The European Fine Art Fair. Maybe it stems from my fervent fascination with...
Amsterdam Again, But it Never Gets Old
Things are much better now, but I did suffer from a case of what the Dutch call “Prolongen Jetlagen”. Do not tell that to anyone who speaks Dutch because I am not sure they know that’s what they call it. I believe it was caused by a combination of incidents. The first of which was taking the advice I had been given to “take this little white pill right after you get on the plane and it will help you...
The Amazing European Art Adventure 2018
It is only one week until another exciting art adventure begins and this one feels like it may be the best ever. The flight to Amsterdam is on March 1 and the next five days will be spent visiting the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk, the Kroller-Muller Museum and the sights of Amsterdam. A scenic 2 1/2 hour train ride to the south on March 7 will put me...
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