two trips

Geoff

Since I enjoy visiting science museums I used Google to find if there were any I had not visited and lo and behold it told me about “Palais Decouvérte”

The website indicated there were lots of exhibitions aimed at teaching young people about science and that was certainly the case.

When I purchased a ticket, in addition to a museum guide I was handed a program for the day’s seminars. There were seminars on 9 different scientific subjects which were scheduled to start every hour from 10:00 am till 4:00 pm and they were all “complet” (full).

Probably the best set up exhibit was the one on poisons which focussed on poisons in nature (animals, fish, vegetation etc). There were many live exhibits, well displayed, and explanatory signage was in French, English and Spanish.

There was a wide range of scientific subjects exhibited with lots of live or hands on demonstrations. I enjoy these types of exhibitions, even if I am familiar with the subjects.

I even learned some new stuff myself (you are never too old to do that).

Hilary

I took the same train route as yesterday, without any problems, and walked to Montmartre to the fabric district. 

police morning briefing

There are a lot of shops which sell coupons [remnants] of three metres.  The fabric is folded in sections with the fabric mix labelled.

soldiers were checking both sides of the street

Marché Saint Pierre is a wonderland of fabric.   Assistants stand waiting with yardsticks, pens and docket books and the cutting, for short pieces at least is done on top of the bolts of fabric.  I was given my small pieces of Christmas fabric and a docket to take to the cashier.  I had gold bits everywhere!

the fabric is pushed back in at night

We met at Châtelet for lunch.

police recruitment - note the roller blade squad