Asturias, Euskal Herria & France Cruise - Bordeaux Page 2

Wednesday 28th May 2014 pm

In the afternoon, we walked to the Musée d'Art Contemporain, rather confusingly sign-posted for cars, so if walking, one goes 7/8ths the way round a block. It is actually in the Rue Ferrière. The building is an old warehouse, ideal for its purpose but the ground floor space was filled with a very sparse & fatuous Japanese exibition of small, very realistic figures about a foot high & not many of them: a shocking waste of space. However, on floor 2 (there is no floor 1) was a show curated by one Julie Maroh (a writer/draughtsperson of graphic novels), called "Procession" & about conflict from a left-wing point of view.

The Gallery ground floor	Van Der Beck: Newspapers Ruins	Upson: Overtakelessness
Combas: (very long title!)	Messager: Plaisir-déplaisir	Di Rosa: 24th Di Rosa

We walked to the West end of the Rue Ferrière, through the Public Park, turn left, cross a one-way street, carry on, turn right & you can see the Galliàne Roman Remains, of obscure origin but probably built by the Emperor Gallieanus.

Seen along the Rue Colisée

Close-up

We returned to the ship in time for tea, through some of those typical dreary French streets that make Watford look good.