Last few days...

So once again I cant remember what my last post was and when and I'm too lazy to look...

But in the last few days...

I ate an awesome baguette. Roast beef. Nice and pink and juicy.

and then I ate this tartlette chocolat... Oh my god... so good.

I went for a walk and found random outside public table tennis tables...

And then found musee de pompidou. Its a museum of art from about 1970s upwards. The building is crazy, it looks all inside outie and stuff.

Here is the view from the strange tube thing on the outside, which ended up being escalators to the top.

And a higher view...

A giant pot! A golden giant pot...

I saw some of my favourite artists works, as well as some new awesome stuff. There was too much for one blog, but if you really want to see it look on facebook or email me. This is Annette Messager... Amazing textiles based works.

Some of the original guerilla girls signs.

A furry Mondian... it was humorous as upstairs was a Mondrian exhibit...

A random sculpture.

A rachel whiteread. crazy, she takes casts of the inside of buildings with plaster or concrete, and then rips away the walls and stuff, showing the space within.

I then found some colourful sweet things.... :D

And some street arts.

And a random emptied fountain with an old building...

And some more street art. CARROTS!

So this is from today. Today I went to the other uni campus at the top of Paris and got myself into a mosaics class. It looks really interesting and I'm excited to get to work next wednesday. Yay for keeping traditional techniques alive. Anyway. I left my trainstation at a different exit than usual just to get to know the area some more and this building popped up. Its pretty amazing hey, flying buttresses and all.

Public art is pretty exciting, I love the giant watering can. That domed building behind it is a bank by the way.... Does your bank look like that?

I also found a cute little craft shop.

Its walls were covered in jars filled with assortments of beads and buttons and bits and bobs. They looked like candy!

Some other walls were covered in skeins of wool, or rolls of ribbons, it was very colourful and cute, and very busy!  I must go back when I have a project in mind.

I went for a walk at night and caught the end of some food markets, so I will have to go back earlier next thursday and have a look. there was a street that was so busy with people that I went for a walk to see what was happening, and it looks like this is where everyone comes at night to get there fresh foods. Each store is specialised and everything looks amazingly fresh. Here is another shot of a patisserie, because I know you love them as much as I!

A boulangerie. I'm not sure what these were, but they looked like works of art in themselves.

The chocolaterie's are all filled with valentines day crap... I might just have to buy myself a heartshaped box of chocolates for then, to show my love and devotion to food... I might even put a lock on the bridge saying Bonnie <3s food. 

A fromagerie. So much cheese. I am yet to buy chesses from a place like this because there is too much choice... and everyone knows what I'm like at decision making... And I'm not buying the shivelled up moldy one just cause its the most expensive! I also so truffles today, only 1600 euros a kilo! Bargain.

Tomorrow its back to French class and then the weekend starts... like it never ended anyway. Very slowly getting uni sorted. 2/4 classes acquired. Not sure what I will do this weekend. Probably more museums and stuff, since I have a nifty student card that has been getting me in for free everywhere! Hooray!

I hope that none of you were effected in the horrible fires I've heard about, and if you are, remember that you are alive, and that is what matters most. And good food. So eat some chocolate for me! I'm on salads and water so I can binge on valentines day to show my love for food. :D

Bon weekend!

Markets and stuff.

I'm eating salt and vinegar and shallot flavoured chips. Pretty different, the onion is a bit intense.

Craving a chocolat chaud but I've resited for days. I'm a STRONG WOMAN.

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Anyway, back to blog related matters.

Today I went to the biggest markets in Europe. They are big. And I may have got lost a few times. It was very interesting, but I don't think I'd go back by myself, its a bit scary with people trying to grab you and stuff.

The outer layer of the markets is all like black rapper crap. Heaps of stalls that are all jamaica themed, and lots of puffer jackets and sneakers, its pretty off putting. This part is really packed.

Hashish pipe anyone? The place is filled with them...

This was a whole stall of hello kitty, it was so pink, I was very scared.

The vintage shopping (the original reason I came to the markets) is amazing. Its all proper vintage, so naturally it comes with a hefty price tag. This whole shop was filled with vintage show girl clothing, it was amazing, but no photos allowed in the store...

This fluffy dog was guarding the vintage store. He was so cute. There were so many puppies at the markets, it was bizarre since a lot of it is inside.

Another vintage store. I thought this phto was funny cause the dress looks like it has a crocodile on it. Glass is getting on my nerves.

Now this is my kinda mona lisa! This guy had some great paintings, all manipulations on the classics. Very expensive though.

BIRDCAGE BIRDCAGE BIRDCAGE!

.... Bit obsessed.

This shop was cute, all old tin toys. I love that retro style.

This vintage shop was filled with channel, YSL, and other amazing clothes. I might have drooled a little.

I did eventually find some vintage shops that were affordable, and bought a cute red and black jacket. Cheapcheap.

Heaps of taxidermy. But really, taxidermy Giraffe? Thats bizarre.

This store, with the car on top, was just for vintage jukeboxes. It was so cool! Mum can I bring one home?

This place had so many vintage beads. 16 euro for a cup full. Every colour imaginable. Very cool.

Need a crown? Sure. This was bizarre. The whole place was filled with so many antiques, from so many centuries. You could furnish your house here, with crazy antiques, and taxidermy giraffes.

My search for a garrison cap goes on without success, but these military hats are pretty amazing. I'm sure if I found the cap I wanted here, it would have been way out of my price range. After getting lost a few times, I decided to head back to the metro and move on. This is the place where the other part of my university is, so I'm sure I'll be seeing it a lot. I kow I barely scratched the surface of this market.

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I went searching for the musee de l'erotisme, the museum of erotic art. As I come up from the metro, the first thing I see is the Moulin Rouge, it was very random. It was surrounded with tourists just looking at it? I couldnt understand it so I took the photo and moved on.

Right next to the museum is this place, called the supermarket of sex. The place was huge, and big discount signs all over it. haha.

The museum itself is 6 floors, 2 of contemporary erotic art, and the rest looking at the history of erotic art.

I guess this was contemporary? It was very randomly placed in the middle of the room next to shoes made from genitals as well...

Some old sex machines were on display, but not much.

This one just had feathers attached to it.

This artist was Jean-Marc Laroche, and he sculpted some very interesting pieces. On the walls were some well shot photos of his works as well.

I like the more mechanical looking pieces.

There was another artist that did illustrations, but all her best ones are probably a bit too much for my audience.

Some of Edgar Degas monotypes of brothels.

I think she fell out of the painting.

The old sculptures were really great. And they had everything we studied at uni, the japanese woodblocks, the indian carvings, the african sculptures. They were great to see. Not sure what the deal with this one was. But I thought it was funny.

It was a good day to get out and about. Especially since the school week starts tomorrow, and I'm still yet to figure out what I'm supposed to do...

Time to start emailing some proffessors.