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MISSING TRAINS CAN BE A GOOD THING......

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Thank goodness I missed that train a month ago. Perhaps I did it on purpose too as there was an exhibition that I thought I would be seeing in Brussels and discovered the night before I left - last week - that it didn’t open until the day after my intended visit. I booked again. There is now a day trip to Brussels which price wise makes it more interesting than going to a restaurant for dinner in Paris. 
My plan for the day was very crowded - five exhibitions. I did not do the five. But I DID stay with my beloved Kandinsky for over two From my point of view, Wassily Kandinsky is one of the most influential painters of the 20th century. Picasso is obviously on the same level and the two of them I cross oceons to look at. This artist of Russian origin, who first becomes a naturalised German, then a Frenchman, is an extremely multifaceted genius. As the founding father of abstract art, his style changes as he  travels from Munich to Paris with stops in Moscow and Berlin, from expressi