04-24 Louve

04-24 Sunday

Paris, Louve

Weather: Rain, 14c

Well what not a better way to spend a raining sunday than in the Lourve. Warned many times about the queues and crowds we were upearly and queued at the main pyramid entrance before it opened. We had tickets in our hands at about 9:10am (pretty pleased with ourselves) and began the well-marked route to the Mona Lisa. It is hard to describe the first viewing of this famous painting. It is more beautiful than I expected - the colours are rich and deep and vibrantand it is bigger than I expected. A small crowd was there and I tooka photo of Jas in front of it. Glad we did because we wandered past it later in the middle of the afternoon and could barely get near it. We found a coffee, developed a plan of attack and set off to explore the Louve. We saw Greek, Roman sculptures, Italian and French paintings, Medieval Louvre etc. We stopped for lunch at the café Devon (for a recharge) and continued until about 5:30pm (the museum closed at 6pm) and returned to the hotel.