A couple of days ago, we visited the Musee d'Orsay. (No pictures allowed.) The interior space is quite the contrast to the Louvre. It is bright and full of light. The top floor is all Impressionist paintings. Lots of Monet, Degas, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec. A feast for the eyes. Some are so beautiful they make you want to weep, others made me laugh. We had a difficult time leaving and may go back today because we missed the van Gogh's.
Glen and Bob found an invention museum for us to visit. We all really enjoyed it. The technology exhibit showed the evolution of computers, with a cell phone from 2000 that looks out of date! It was very well done, and not the least crowded. We have not seen everything in any museum yet. Some, like the Louvre, you could spend every day for a month and not see it all. We could have easily spent two days in the invention museum.
This photo of King Louis XIV crown jewels housed in the Louvre.
We stopped at the Deportation Memorial directly behind Notre Dame. It honors the 200,000 that were killed in Nazi concentration camps in France and included French resistance, Jews, homosexuals, men, women, and children. Earth from the concentration camps was placed in the memorial. The following picture shows a light for each person that died in the camps in France.
We are staying in the Latin Quarter and really like our neighborhood. Across the street is a college of agriculture. Behind it is our local shopping street. Each little place specializes: a frommagerie (for cheese), bakeries for bread or desserts, fruit markets, meats, seafood, wine, and of course a plethora of restaurants. It is fun to shop like the locals.
One of the Metro stations we frequently use takes us past the following gas station. Note the details, and it is right on the street. :)
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