Week-end in Paris

I'm now back in Bordeaux (since Sunday evening actually) after 4 days in Paris. I went there for work (well... at least on Thursday and Friday ;-) in order to take part to a meeting between Green politicians from the main French cities. It was quite interesting to learn about the initiatives in other cities in areas such as energy, local democracy, urbanism...

But this long "week-end" in the French capital was also an opportunity to see my Parisian friends. And, despite the fact I was quite ill during almost all the week-end, I managed to see almost all of them : Marie, Lionel, Vincent, Claire, Sandrine (whom I had not seen since the Erasmus year!), Dominique and Etienne, Matthieu and Alice.

Unfortunately it was too cold and I was too tired and sick to enjoy the beauties of Paris, so finally I only visited cafés and Asian restaurants (the only place where they propose rice ;-).
But I made a cultural pause with the visit of the marvellous new "Museum Branly" (http://www.quaibranly.fr/index.php?id=1&L=1) which I recommend you : the building itself (by the French architect Jean Nouvel) is really worth a visit and it presents a great collection of art and multimedia about peoples and civilizations from Asia, Africa, America and the Pacific area (this museum has been qualified as the "Museum of primary arts" - Musée des Arts Premiers). And it is just a few hundred metres from the Eiffel Tower, so no reason for missing it when you come to Paris ;-)