on the move

On April 2 I will jump a bus for Cesky Krumlov, where I will stay for 4 nights, only because I couldn't get a ticket to Paris until the 6th. I am booked into the lovely and beguiling Hostel Merlin, where I plan to do nothing. Sit in cafes and write postcards and sip tea or bad Nescafe coffee. I will walk slowly and ponder the peeling plaster walls. I will relax and think of nothing that starts with L. I will photograph everything.

On the 6th, I take the bus back to Prague and wait 3 hrs and trek to another bus station for my bus to Paris. I have booked a single room for 72 Euro. A little treat in Paris to have my own room. Did I mention it's spring break and there are gaggles of teenagers roaming the city in slutty packs? They seem to recently discovered the delirious effects of intoxicating themselves to the nauseating point of obnoxiousness. Or is it just me getting old?

I'm looking forward to returning to Paris for a few things I forgot.

-14 Metro stations adorned with Art Nouveau entrances.
-The Moulin Rouge
-Musee D'Orsay for Impressionistic art
-Montparnasse Cemeterie for Brancusi's Kiss, properly
-The Eiffel Tower
-A Perfumerie designed by Mucha on Rue Royal
-Various buildings designed by Art Nouveau architect Hector Guimard
- a jewelery shop that Mucha designed on Rue Royal. Gee, I hope that's still standing.

By the way, did I ever mention that the term Art Nouveau came from a shop in Paris owned by Siegfried Bing called L'Art Nouveau? I'll die if it still exists.

I just found this interesting link which is a biography of who's who in Art Nouveau.

What a time I am having. What delicious inspiration. Paris will be such a thrill and then BRUSSELS, the birth place of it all