Alone in the rain on a Monday.....is that the start to a bad week??

My day stared looking for the Picasso Museum. I found it.

It's was ok, more expensive than my guide book lead me to believe, but interesting, lots of different rooms, underground caverns, and upper levels, it was a mini maze of Picasso pieces. I was a little disappointed because I really wanted to see "Ma Jolie" it's my favourite Picasso piece, I remember seeing it somewhere in France last time I was here, almost 10 years ago. It's now at the MOMA in NYC so I'll just have to go there! When I was in NYC with Kasumi in 2004, the MOMA was in Queens, because it's current location was under construction so I never got to see it. Yes, yet another reason to go to NYC!!

After the Picasso museum, I walked towards Bastille, and took the metro to go to the Pantheon. The Pantheon used to be a church, Sainte Genevieve, converted into the resting ground for some of the famous revolutionaries of Paris: inventors, philosophers, men/women of science, political figures. I didn't know everyone, but I did recognize Voltaire, Curie, Hugo, Dumas, and Zola. It was a crazy time to go to the Pantheon, they had an exhibition on inside, which I enjoyed, because it's a large space, and had there not been these dangling forms from the ceiling, it would have been yet another big church. It was by Ernesto Neto/ Levianthan Thot.

The basement of the Pantheon is where the crypts are kept, and it too was a beautiful limestone maze.

I walked around the city for a bit, then decided I will go to my new favourite book store, Galignani (where I applied for a job as the fine arts specialist!) for two reasons, 1) I love to peruse through the books there and 2) to check if the position is still open and introduce myself. Lucky for me, right next door is Angelina's tea room, so a great hot chocolate, and raspberry tart for me! And all indoors to avoid the downpour for an hour.