During the first Sunday of every month in Bordeaux (and maybe throughout France) the museums are open to the public for free. It is really a nice way to spend a morning or afternoon particularly on a day like last Sunday. My friends and I went to the Musée de Beaux Arts which houses many early renaissance paintings and a whole impressionist exhibit featuring Matisse (I think it is impressionist). After we went to the museum we walked all along the quai (the boardwalk next to the river). We found an amazing farmers market and ended up eating Spanish food for lunch. My friend Lea and I shared this amazing couscous dish, but they also had paëlla (sp?) and shish kebabs that looked fabulous. We found some unpasteurized apple juice and petites cannelés too as we were walking around! Cannelés are like baked flan…almost, they are really hard to describe, but once you have had a fresh baked warm canellé you just can’t go back. After we ate we walked down farther along the boardwalk and got ice cream and simply ambled down the quai in the sunshine. It was so warm, it got all the way up to 50 degrees Fahrenheit! I was walking outside in the sunshine in a dress and a cardigan and it felt marvelous! Thank goodness for acclimation!
This is the giant glass crocodile sculpture outside of the museum
Lovely ladies on the boardwalk! (courtesy of Emily Mertens)
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