April 18
"Indian food in France - delicious as it ever was"
Today I took my first day off. I had originally planned on taking a day off every 3 or 4 days, but I was consumed by passion. Note that the etymology of passion comes from Latin pateor "to suffer".
I believe I went to the Saint Loup museum, which contains "Very important collections of painters and sculptors of the XV to the XIX c. (particularly XVII and XVIII c.) with works by Champaigne, Tassel, Mignard, Watteau, Fragonard, Greuze, Davis, Boucher, Girardon and Natoire.
See the gallery of mediaeval sculptures and its bestiary. Department of architecture from prehistory to Merovingian times. Treasure of Pouan (Aube): arms and jewellery of a Barbarian chief in 5th century gold. Apollo by Vaupoisson, rare bronze of the Gallo-Roman era.
Vestiges of a Gallo Roman villa, brought up to date and preserved in situ. Natural History Museum: fossils, insects, birds, animals… In the garden megalithic monuments, (polishing stone, dolmen, menhir)."
I tried a non-sweet kind of pastry for a change - it had meat in it. It was called pa(circonflex)tes-viande. (The last time I tried to type a circonflex it deleted all my work so I'm not going to do it again.) It was delicious - juicy and full of life.
For dinner I had Indian food. Restaurant had the same feel as an Indian restaurant back home. The food was superb. I ate every ounce of chutney placed within a one-meter radius. The creepy thing was being served by an Indian guy who had a French accent. It still gives me shivers. But it didn't cause me to lose my appetite.
When it
2.02 breakfast groceries
1.50 bread thing w/ apple
4 museum
2.25 pates viande
3.25 groceries
9.60 maps
4.90 Fr <--> En dictionary
7.80 campsite
26.00 dinner: indian, wine, dessert w/ grand marnier on it