d'Orsay Museum
It's not the Louvre, but the next best thing. Maybe better due to less crowds. Sydney wanted to go with us so we left the others at home & the 3 of us spent the afternoon together. The d'Orsay Museum was the old P&O Paris-Orleans) train station built for the 1900 Paris World's Fair. Mostly Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh & Manet; the impressionists... |
| a hearty Parisian breakfast |
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| the spacious hall of the old train station-turned museum |
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| an atypical Monet |
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| Degas |
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| Stacia's favorite Degas |
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| Sydney with a Manet |
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| behind the huge clock |
Champs-Elysees Avenue in the Rain
We walked across the closest bridge over the river & sat in the Tuileries Gardens deciding whether to head for the closest metro (Sydney & I preferred this option) or walk the tourist path down Champs-Elysees Avenue for some shopping... Stacia won out, "Yes I'm tired, but we're in Paris, this is it!" Off we went & it soon started raining. |
| little-known statue of TJ, minister to France 1784-89 |
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| a look back at the d'Orsay Museum |
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| Royal Palace in the rain |
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| Paul's Bakery |
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