Paris trip

[lobelia321]

Am going to Paris tomorrow for 2 days! Am going to see the Gérome exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay and do some archival research on Regnault's painting Execution under the Moors. Am taking the Eurostar: departure at 8.02 in the morning, arrival at 11.30! (That's 2 1/2 hours with the time difference.)

I am a bit excited but I always get anxious about such trips as well... At least I'm not flying. Am willing to pay extra for the peace of a train journey.

Gerome is fabulous!

And this is one of my favourite paintings of the 19th century and a staple on my desktop: Regnault's Execution!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

What a co-incidence. Well, diametrically opposed in that I have been prevented from seeing Paris (more than once) and am scared of the town I'll have to go to (but then again I'll be locked in a hall all day and unable to see anything). And yet this was my favourite painting at a gallery I went to last year - and it was only on the cover of a book! I spent ages trying to figure out what it is and again just now when The Sitting reminded me of it and voila, it was your Gerome. (The reproduced images online vary hugely in look so that I was even more anxious to see the real thing one day).
Paid research? I'll really start working as a cleaner soon.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I have a difficult history with Paris. A lot of the times I've been I've fallen ill: violent headache; vomiting in middle of night; so I was just happy to get away this time with a mere nose bleed and a coughing attack in a bookshop. ;-) I managed to survive by mostly staying within one building -- the Musée d'Orsay -- which is fabulous. So I had a great time and bought two books and loved loved the art!

I'm not getting your bit about being a cleaner. :-(

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Oh dear, well, glad you got off lightly this time. Swine flue is rampant in tourist centers again, but I doubt the d'Orsay qualifies the same way crowded skiing huts do.
An Australian friend will manage to catch the last days of this exhibition because I told her about it due to your post.

Sorry, I just wondered if you managed to do this trip for work, ie. paid research, and then leap frogged onto the nonsequiturial thought that I should become an ordinary cleaner as a job.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

No, the cleaner thing was a snortle sporfle to suggest that a cleaner is likely to earn more than an academic... But! Good news! My head of dept is supporting my expenses claim so ha! Swine flu in Britain has only killed old and ill people this year and no more than last year and nobody's panicking. These things are so media-dependent: same thing happened last year: total panic. This year, exact same statistics: nobody cares, and the news is about Egypt and government spending cuts. A few of those fliers from last winter -- 'Wash your hands! Especially now!' - still hang forlornly in public toilets but I can't get the energy up to worry.

They told me Paris was infested with bed bugs but I didn't experience them, either. ;-)

And an Australian friend went to the Gerome!! yay

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Ah, good, or not, you lucky academic you. I do earn less than the cleaner.

Yes, we think they have some vaccine left over. Here the expected groups (the young) died. The ordinary flu though infected and still infects more and more inconsiderate coughing snifflers in public transport.

I fear she didn't go after all, too busy enjoying ... bistros and bibliotheques? No time to catch up. I hope to see some Marc very soon though, also looking for Chagall and Klee now.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Have fun! I love Eurostar - I wish it went everywhere (and got you there in under three hours of course).

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Flying scares me, and training is bad enough (I always lie awake before a journey, it seems) but I love rail travel, and I love the Eurostar! It should indeed go everywhere, to Kazakhstan and to Reijkjavik (looon tunnel) and to Atlantis via Gate!!!

[mystico-tala.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, what beautiful paintings, I like his style a lot. I might have to go to this exhibition. Maybe this week :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

The exhibition is great, even though I didn't love all of the pictures but I love the Musée d'Orsay!!! I spent ages in front of the Regnault.

[vasiliki.livejournal.com]

Have a great time!!! :D
(he's a fabulous painter, indeed!)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and I did!! :-)