Sunil Kumar sent you: Directions to Musée du Luxembourg 19 Rue de Vaugirard 75006 Paris, France via Google Maps

103 Rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris, France

1.	Head southeast on Rue de Grenelle toward Rue de Bellechasse	600 m
2.	Slight left to stay on Rue de Grenelle	400 m
3.	Turn right at Rue du Dragon	24 m
4.	Turn left at Rue du Vieux Colombier	250 m
5.	Turn right at Rue Bonaparte	110 m
6.	Turn left at Allée du Séminaire	180 m
7.	Turn left at Rue de Vaugirard	150 m
8.	Turn right	37 m
9.	Turn right Destination will be on the right	46 m

Musée du Luxembourg 19 Rue de Vaugirard 75006 Paris, France

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Coke Cannes

Only place I make myself to drink coke is in Cannes at the Carlton.
Goes well with the beach and the general mediteranian atmo.

And drinking it I am convinced that I can't take this sugar syrup anywhere else. Things it does to your stomach and that aftertaste..unbearable.

precious saturday mornings

The weekends I am in Paris I have a routine for Saturday mornings. Try to wake up early , walk the quiet streets in the neighbourhood ,buy a Herald tribune ,pick a café with no specific logic and install myself for next hour or so.

I am a morning person and I like it this way. Some of the other patrons in the café are people who had a nuit blanche.

Today next to my table sat two young ladies who seemed like had a night out partying and were making up for their previous night's intemperance with large cup of black coffee. I was mistaken. I heard the waiter chat them up. He wished them a good day when they were leaving. One of the girls said ," Wish us goodnight". It turned out they were ER nurses who had gone through another bad night. They live the nightmares that we dread in our sleeps.

I will think of them next time that ambulence screams through Boulevard Ornano at 1 am and wakes me up from deep cozy slumber.

My version of Stanley Kubrick

Best south indian restaurant in Paris

Finally authentic south Indian thaali and kaapi in Paris..right outside gare du nord on 170 rue faunourg st denis.

Good price and great service ( read free second servings of sambhar).

No irritating Hindustani classical music and fake Indian paintings and plastic sculptures.

Endangered species

In days of visagists and coiffures a vintage barber shop in chiswick park London.

Love predawn traveling . Listening to dil to bachcha hai ji.

Happy onam

Me jumping at news of being invited for an onam sadyA.
Nice weekend at champs- élysées park and ysl exhibition at petit palais.
And ofcourse the sadya and drink with aude.

life before death

Nelly died yesterday.

How old was she? Doesn't matter. She was young enough to enjoy life and she could have gone on like this for many many more years. But she couldn't. We don't have details yet but we speculate her cancer might have come back.

Two springs ago when I met her at her Palo Alto residence she drove me to Stanford shopping mall and bought a gift for viv from GAP. We posed in front of the upcoming louis vutton shop ; a picture for my French wife she said.

While driving me back to my hotel room in her really old mercedes I tuned her radio to NPR.

Last year she visited us in Paris and told me that radio station changed her life. She doesn't hate driving anymore.

A real bundle of energy she was at 75. May her soul rest in peace.

Solar power

Sunny-side at Paris cafés can demand a premium.
There is always a demand supply issue.

Philosophy still gives me headache

Tried reading Russell when I was 12 from my vallya uncle's collection.
Now reading again after 25 years.
Still gives me headache.

Will persist this time. B1/2 says it's matter of getting used to.

4 restaurants in a day

When every other shop is a café and weather is great it js difficult not to indulge.
Breakfast and tribune at Francouer, mid morning chocolate chaud with viv and Claire in the rain at la cave
Beer with Claire and viv at la renaissance.
Pizza dinner at Tour de Pisa.

Making up for 2 months of being away from them.

Grey stubble

Spotted my first grey beard while eating with bippu.
Had a great time.

Quarterly Ieper trip

Almost missed train to Lille.
Was sad to see viv's anxious looks -- eagerness to join me but the helplessness of the need to be with mommy.
Reading about Rousseau by Russell.

Frenchie

Waiting next to french naturalization office at this nice cafe..sitting outside reading ghoshal.
My number is 20.
The day I started French passport process.

Parc floral

Letting go is tough

A lady runs into our Ist class compartment a few seconds before the
train slammed it's doors. She makes frantic calls to her husband who
supposed to get on the train but was about miss it. She pleads with
the authorities to delay the train and wait for her husband. TGV waits
for nobody.

Train left without her husband. She places all her bags on one seat
and sank into the other. Passengers who couldn't find a seat in this
crowded train enquired if the seat was avaiable and she kept refusing
it through out the trip. She replaces her clumsy husband with this
duffle bag that silently sat on his seat. She didn't let go off the
seat and baggage remained for her as a reminder of her misfortune.

Aren't we like that with our relationships and tragedies in life?
symbollically replacing bygones with meaningless attachments. Life
would be easier if we just let go sometimes.

airport delay

waiting in CDG for my flight to take off. Volcano in Iceland is active again.Missed the previous one. I am quite relaxed compared to other passengers who either have to get home or are planning to head back home in a week. Even if the flight makes through the today they fear things might get complicated for their return trip.

Reading Merde Happens ,stephen clarks book on american trip.

hobby: parallel reading

Never been so voracious. Finished 3 books in 3 weeks. Traveling helps and going to bed with Viv also helps. Theoritically I am supposed to read him stories but end up piling a bunch of story books next to him and encourage him to read himself. He rebelled the first few days but now prefers it this way. He is sits up and bla bla blas sifting through the same books over and over again, and I lie down next to him reading my book. The sign that he is cranky ,tired and sleepy is when he starts to attack what I am reading. Then I switch off the lights ,sing to him and he is asleep in seconds.

Finished reading : Eat,Love,Pray/ The brief wonderous world of oscar wao/ An year in merde/ Starting over -- all in the last 4 weeks.
Next set of books in the pipeline : Huckleberry finn/ the call of the toad/ popular music