Planning trips in my sketchbook. Please comment with any art, architecture, food (no booze, please), parks, fabric, and thrifting things to do in Paris and Brussels!
Planning trips in my sketchbook. Please comment with any art, architecture, food (no booze, please), parks, fabric, and thrifting things to do in Paris and Brussels!
Fabric shopping in Paris: The area of the Marché St. Pierre! And the shop Anna Ka Bazaar. Have fun!
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Second the Marché St Pierre next to the Sacré Coeur in Monmartre. There are dozens of fabric stores near there as well. I just came from Brussels and Librairie Filigraines was a lovely book store. I recommend their Musée de Beaux Arts as well.. We saw the Old Masters section with Bruegel but I would also recommend the post 1800s section. For museums in Paris, the Louvre is just not that magical. A lot of filler and a frustrating layout. The Musée D’Orsay and L’Orangerie (with the Waterlilies by Monet) are nice and not as crowded.
The best vacation of my life was to Brussels. I recommend the Hergé museum, just a short train ride from the city (I’m not a Tintin fan but my travel companions were; I am an illustrator and just loved the museum anyway). Also, we went to lots of chocolate shops and ice cream stands and bought just a little at each so we could repeat that all day. There was also a lovely cozy restaurant just off the Grande Place that I can’t remember the name of – but it was underground, lots of red bricks, and the mussels and cheese with a fresh baguette were SO GOOD.