Day 3 in Paris

Today's wanderings had some highs and lows and another high...

Today is Victory Day and a public holiday in Paris so not everything we expected to open or available was... 

We successfully reached the Eifell Tower by bus from the hotel and a quick walk down the Quai Branley to the Musée...Quai Branley... unfortunately we were an hour earlier than opening time and half an hour before the cafe wasdue to be open. The weather had taken a rather cold turn so we were more than ready for a nice tea by the time the cafe started serving.

The Quai Branly museum displays collections of objects from African, Asian, Oceanian and American civilizations and was a great experience.

Catching the bus again to move onward and upward... to an interchange with another bus service that we discovered was one that didn't run on public holidays - doh!

A short(ish) cab ride overcame the transport issue but introduced us to an hour long queue at Musée Marmottan Monet... not too bad, as such, but then it started to lightly rain... one of main reasons to visit this museum, beyond seeing other impressionist painting, was see if they had a better/different selection of prints. It turned out they had less of a selection than Musée D'Orsay - bleerk.

Fortunately we still had access passes to Musée D'Orsay so another visit restored the purchase requirements... and lead to having a nice (late) lunch at Tabac D'Orsay.

A long, but enjoyable day...

Day 2 in Paris

Pleasant morning venturing out to Musée D'Orsay to visit another Monet collection...

This one has the panel 'Le déjeuner', a print of which is on the walls of a certain home in Adelaide. 

Then is was over the road to view some more Monet panels at Musée de l'Orangerie... lilies in abundance!

Onto a light(ish) lunch at L'Imperial cafe on rue de Rivoli before heading back to the hotel for a well earned rest 

Bronwen Beatrice Margaret Davis (1933 - 2012)

Sad news to announce that on Friday 16 November 2012, Bron died.

I send all of my love and thoughts to Paul, Stephanie and Jonathan and their families and to Bron's sisters Jean and Chris.

Opening Keynote about to happen

The doors are open and we a nearly ready for the first keynote - "Inventing the Future, as a Community" by Jay Verkler (Past President and CEO of FamilySearch)

JFK and beyond

After having left late from Heathrow we were only 10 minutes late landing - that was good...

Even so, getting shuffled through Border Control as a connecting passenger it was found that, when checking my ongoing baggage, the luggage would not be able to make the connection and therefore not would I - that's bad...

The Delta official was however able to find a flight direct from JFK to Salt Lake - and that's really good (some 2 hours earlier too)...

The oddity is that when booking my flights originally, I was going from LHR to Boston to Salt Lake City and then just before Christmas, Delta cancelled the direct to Boston flight and changed it to include an annoying JFK to Boston leg, when all along there was no way for me to make the flight! Why they couldn't have just done what the New York person did I don't know.

Anyway, now I am due in Salt Lake City at about the time I was originally scheduled back in October - yee har... or even woo hoo!!