A walk through clouds and art in Paris

We stayed in the 7th arrondissement, on Rue du Général Bertrand, close to the Eiffel Tower. The flat was small, with a concrete spiral staircase and round shapes everywhere. In the morning I drank my coffee and looked out the window at the rooftops.

We walked a lot, on foot and by metro. Saturday, from the Bourse de Commerce towards Les Halles. Sunday morning Line 13 was closed, so we took an Uber. Below is the whole route, and then a map from one stop to the next.

At the Bourse de Commerce, the whole rotunda was full of fog. It is an installation by Fujiko Nakaya, “Cloud #07156”. The fog rises from the floor, wraps around you and keeps changing. I walked into it and for a few minutes I could no longer see anyone.

Nakaya is over 90 and has worked with fog since 1970. Her father was a physicist, the first to make artificial snowflakes in a laboratory. The exhibition “Clair-obscur” stays open until 14 September 2026.

Near the Bourse, the street was full of people. A DJ, people dancing, others playing games on some red tables. We stopped for a while too.

On Sunday we reached the Marais, the streets lined with vintage shops. I leafed through ELLE and Marie-Claire magazines from the 1950s and tried on a pair of silver Marni shoes. I didn't take the shoes, I took an armful of magazines. They're a piece of history.

The Petit Palais is free and worth it. At the entrance there were two huge white heads. Inside, colourful rooms with paintings and sculptures, a grand wrought iron staircase and a round courtyard with columns and a café.

Paris is full of blue doors. I photographed them one by one, one after another, a blue almost like Klein's.

The last stop, a bistro with a blue façade, close to Klein blue. A glass of white wine by the window and that was pretty much the weekend.