The Search

After a tough 12 months we’re back on the train to Paris [...]

After a night with no sleep our Paris adventure comes to an end with a costly change for an early train heading for London’s Guy’s Hospital Acute Dental Emergency Wing. [...]

7.00am and we’re on Eurostar heading for Paris to pick up where we left off last year. [...]

It’s the end of another research trip and we’ve still not completed our task, maybe this is one of those things that remains unresolved. Maybe the whole purpose of ‘The [...]

It was great to be able to visit the Centre Pompidou again and see the freshly installed collection, especially Breton’s personal collection – housed with more space allowing more of the [...]

Picasso Mania at the Grand Palais is the big exhibition in town and this morning we visited it. Unfortunately we hadn’t figured that Armistice Day was a public holiday in France and [...]

After a long day arting we decided to loosen our brains with a spot of shopping and headed for Galeries Lafayette on Boulevard Haussmann and on the way take a [...]

Visiting ‘splendeurs et miseres – Images de la prostitution exhibition at Musee D’orsay, which is full of great paintings – especially the Lautrecs – but watching the mass of visitors [...]

Opened by Emperor Napoleon III on 11 December 1852 the Cirque d’Hiver (“Winter Circus”) was frequented and captured by many artists including  Toulouse-Lautrec & Seurat. Located at 110 rue Amelot ( just metres [...]

110 rue Amelot, Delarue’s main residence in the 1930’s situated to the right of Republic and famed for the Cirque d’hiver Bouglione half way along the street. We had managed to rent [...]