and you must go to the Orangerie in Paris to see Monet's famous Water Lilies paintings. they're incredible, and huge!
Good luck with the holiday-hunting Wahaj & boyfriend & if I hear/read of anything to better your price I'll let you know....promise :)
meanwhile, a memory...
Back a few years ago & I was in Manhattan staying with family - visiting Museum of Modern Art was a must-do....MOMA was being extended/renovated, many galleries closed & stuff moved around, & we had a temporary guide pamphlet to help negotiate.
This, my son & I put in the capable hands of DIL.....she is an Industrial Designer, knows her way round technical drawings, etc., hey! can even make sense of Ikea flat-pack instructions AND create from them & assorted pieces of wood, something that more-or-less resembles the bought item......more to the point, she can read maps.....
SO.....we wander round MOMA, DIL temporary map in hand.....
I want to see the enormous tryptich of Monet's Water Lillies, on loan....
DIL, head into map, leads the way - and we two follow......
DIL, engrossed in map-reading takes us hither-and-yon, through gallery & gallery & through some open passage until she stops, head still down reading the map, and says "it must be hereabouts somewhere"....
She only looked up at the noise OH & MIL made, on her left, laughing, hooting, slapping thighs,etc.....etc..... and in unison shouting "LOOK BEHIND YER!!".....and there, on her right, in this enormous cavernous gallery, was......
the tryptich.....
thanks for the memory NL... 8)