Three Months in France March 31 – June 28, 2007

Today’s Photos

Today Francois and I took the #69 bus to the Louvre while John and Anne ran some errands. We walked through the back of the Louvre courtyard and then towards the pyramid where everyone has to enter so they can check your bags etc. The line moved fairly quickly which was good becausee today was fairly grey, cool and windy.

When we entered the pyramid we proceeded downstairs to buy our 8Euro tickets (cheap!) get a Starbucks and then try and see as much as we could. We meandered through parts of the Richelieu, Sully and Denon sections of the Louvre. We saw most of the highlights of course, the Mona Lisa (it was fairly crowded to get a close look), the Venus de Milo (again crowded), works of Michelangelo, de Vinci, Vermeer and a bunch of others that I’ll never remember their names. It was great but very overwhelming. Someday we’ll go back and I have to also see the Musée d’Orsay, I heard its really good too.

After the Louvre our brains were fried so we went down the street to the Hotel Meurice, headquarters for the Nazis during the Paris occupation in WW II. Very impressive on the outside and very fancy on the inside. We proceeded next to a bookstore that claims to be the first English bookstore on the continent – Galignani – very cool store!

John and Anne met up with us at the bookstore and we walked next door to Angelina’s for some fabulous hot chocolate, quite easily the best I’ve ever tasted. I’ll come back here for sure!

We all then walked back towards our hotel, seeing some of the different streets along the way, it was a great tour. We picked up some dinner from a very fancy grocery store (I managed to take a few pictures before I was shut down by the staff) and ate at home.

Tomorrow, off to Normandy!