Tag: Travel

Dramatic skies over Gstaad

Vending machine, Gstaad, Switzerland

View of Sacré-Cœur from the Musée d’Orsay

This Monet painting is of London in the fog, but my son said it looks to him like Mordor!

Paris trip, day 2/2: pain de chocolat at a sidewalk cafe, impressionist masterpieces at the Musée d’Orsay, more charcuterie and sweet crepes for lunch, stroll through the Tuileries Garden to the Louvre Pyramid, train back to Switzerland.

Atelier des Lumières also projects an exhibit based on Japanese painting, so naturally they animated Hokusai’s famous waves.

Atelier des Lumières: the works of Van Gogh digitally projected on the 10 meter tall walls of a disused 19th century iron foundry and set to music.

Paris from atop the Sacré-Cœur Basilica

Street art in Montmartre