We’re just home from a few days in Paris. I wanted to visit Notre Dame for the first time since the fire. It was busy and chaotic but also unexpectedly moving. There was a real sense of people responding emotionally to the restored building. Last time it felt like a simple tourist attraction; this time, there was more.
The Musée d’Orsay was very busy and physically exhausting. But the building is extraordinary, and it was wonderful to come face to face with so many famous impressionist and post-impressionist paintings. Van Gogh’s stare has stayed with me…