Blois

Between Amsterdam and now, I've been to Versailles, Blois, and Musee d'Orsay. Versailles is a chateau not far from Paris, and Blois is a small town two hours south of Paris where I stayed with my host family for the weekend at their countryside vacation home. There is a chateau not far from their home in Blois as well, which we visited, as well as three others in the countryside that we did a driving tour of.

Musee d'Orsay was a fieldtrip we went on yesterday. Lots of fine art. I saw some Picasso, Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Cezanne and Degas. There was a ton of art, and I didn't have time for it all, but it was neat what I did see.

[Versailles]






[Host family's home in the countryside]


[Chateau de Blois]



[Chateau de Chambord]


[Host Family - Gille, Lucile and their son Etienne]


From the Musee d'Orsay:

[Picasso/Manet exhibition. Manet painted Luncheon on the Grass and Picasso painted several interpretations of that same painting]




[Monet]


[Van Gogh and myself]