okay now we finna hit this real hard and I am going to outline beaucoup BEAUCOUP de walks cause come next week I will be living on a bus roaming around Northern France. so here we go friends.

WALK HUIT: The Jewish Quarter and Musée Picasso

wow love, seriously. being in Paris and all we've spent far more time than the average American citizens in museums of just about every nature, but I adored Picasso. his work was anything but conventional, and personally I found it enchanting. not all of it was necessarily beautiful to me, but intriguing and easy to appreciate for sure. the rotating statues showcasing the genius behind every angle, the geometric style, the massive disproportional head statues seemed almost to be of a different reality. close enough, but like we were looking through a layer of water, warping all the perspectives.

mid-walk break was the magnum store with dina-rina where they make the most magnificent ice cream bars of your choice right in front of you. we're talking coated in golden flakes ice cream bars. 10 for 10 would recommend.

as for the rest of the Jewish Quarter, big fan.

also Musée Cognacq-Jay was cool. not my favorite, but housed in a darling old-fashioned (zero percent surprised, this is Paris we're talking about) home where every wall is painted to enhance the art it holds and boards squeak under your feet and you can actually picture people living there. also, for future notice, nothing is for sale there are madeline and anneka discovered after inquiring after the price of like, everything.

more sidenotes: dina did not approve of what was supposedly the world's best falafel, also I BROKE MY PHONE (hence the shambles) so a whole bunch of my photos are no more, life is hard.


WALK NEUF: Follow the Money: Palais Royal, Bourse, Covered Passages

here I found what is undoubtedly in my top three savory food items in this entire country thus far. piadinas... aka Italian street food. significantly better than any of the food I purchased on the streets in Rome, for the record. oh, also that was in the covered passages which is why it's relevant. LOVE THE COVERED PASSAGES. google maps will have you wandering some street, telling you to turn where there is nothingggg and then LO AND BEHOLD you duck through some inconspicuous doorway and there is an entire shopping center hidden. complete with fantastic Italian street food restaurants. yay for the passage des Panoramas.

okay to prior to the dinner break we hid up the antique shops by the Louvre, of course. felt very underdressed and very out of our league but it was magnificent. there was a lot of very old, very delicate, very beautiful things far out of my price range but HEY that's okay! it's all part of the experience!! nothing new here.

what else what else... ah yes. how could I forget. Palais Royal. this is why I love these walks (sometimes). never would I ever have stumbled across the black and white checkerboard statues, bizarre but lovely. the mirrored balls in fountains, slowly turning and waltzing around each other,

la Bourse was impressive (houses the French Stock Market). not really my thing, but I appreciated the fact that I was standing in front of the building in which gears were turning that would touch the entire globe directly or indirectly.


okay that's all for now. more coming, don't fret.