well this is in the middle of the World Cup of football/soccer in Brazil. I have several teams that I follow for passport’s sake. Spain is out suddently and surprisingly , but France and the USA are still in the fight to advance. France plays tonite vs Ecuador and the USA vs Germany. To be continue.
We have the cinema in summer this year again with plenty of free films all over the place, including in my old Yvelines dept 78. Some of the cities involved are Marly-le-Roi, Poissy, Vernouillet, Achéres, Meulan, Jouy-en-Josas, Chateaufort, and Dampierre.
Near Paris you will have at the Domaine de Saint Cloud, at the lawn of the Villette, Institut Suédois, on the quais near musée d’Orsay and Assamblée Nationale.
Then you have the summer festivals like at the parc floral ,the Paris Jazz Festival until July 27th.The All Stars at New Morning until August 2nd.
The expositions of Summer like at Quai Branly, the Indians of the Plains, USA until July 27th. De Watteau à Fragonard, les fêtes galantes at the musée Jacquemart-André until July 21th. The Grand Palais has until July 13th , Moi, Auguste, Empereur de Rome. A new museum design by Jean Nouvel, yes this is the Louvre at Abu Dhabi, until July 28 on the Louvre de Paris Naissance d’un musée, the birth of a museum. At the Invalides, until July 14th , you will have the Mousquetaires or muskeeteers of Richelieu and D’Artagnan. Art Nouveau at the Petit Palais until August 17th the presentation of Paris 1900. Sculptures comes alive with Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux at the Musée d’Orsay until September 30th. The showing of the Orient Express at the Institut du Monde Arabe with the Il était un fois l’Orient Express until August 31th.
You have a pedestrian event in my Versailles this Sunday June 29th, 11h30 to 17h Free. the walk on the road RD10 from Versailles to Saint-Cyr-l’Ecole (passing by the Orangerie and back of castle) usually full of car traffic will have Sunday the la Grande Déambulation de Versailles. You will have the road all to yourselves to walk on it no car traffice allowed. You will be invited to a picnic near the wonderful la Pièce d’eau des Suisses ,and then to walk near the castle on foot, bike, skate etc. There will be a BMX spot ,a skate park, and a escalation wall to climb. Fun for the whole family.
Enjoy summer is here for sure, and I am off to Mexico this Sunday so stay tune out for a week or more. Cheers and have fun.
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