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Sunday began with American style pancakes, scrambled eggs and toast. A hearty brunch to fuel a trip to the Musée d'Orsay for free museum Sunday. Four of us girls met up in Neuilly and first had a look around the annual 'garage sale'. This is basically an opportunity for anyone and everyone to set up a stall out on the street selling off their old junk. It was a cool festival atmosphere; they closed off the streets to traffic, Madonna and Pink were blasting through the loud speakers, the smell of patisseries and nougat filled the air and the sun was out. Actually it was too hot to spend long looking at table after table of ugly vases, novelty shot glasses and jewellery from the 80s, so we carried on our way.
We decided on Musée d'Orsay which is definitely one of my faves and did the sensible thing by choosing to visit just half of one floor. It's not as big as the Louvre but in my opinion you would still need about 8 hours to do it justice!
Here are some of my 'coups de coeur'.

Circus by George Seurat

And life imitates art as this guy in a pointilist shirt photographs a painting in the pointilist style.
Porte de la Rochelle by Paul Signac
The Meal by Paul Gauguin
And when museum fatigue hits it's time to trot across into St Germain for Croque Monsieur and a rosé. Perfect finish to a lovely day.