We wake up this morning, looked out the window and it is a perfect Paris day. The sky is blue and the temperature is perfect. We take the opportunity to walk to the Louvre. We leave the apartment around 9am for the 2km walk. This is the best weather we have had on the holiday yet. We get to the Louvre and we are inside within minutes. The thing that gets me is that in Perth, it costs 50 bucks to take the family to botanic golf. Here, it cost 20 euro (26 bucks) for the family to see the most famous museum in the world. Botanic golf...Louvre....work that out! Everyone has told me and I have also read that Paris is expensive but this has not been our experience. Some things may be more expensive like wine at a restaurant, but wine at a bottle shop is heaps cheaper. Overall we think this is a cheaper place to visit than Perth. Another thing is that a lot of the attractions are free or very inexpensive to see even when compared to London. We end up spending about 4 hours in the Louvre and we check out the usual suspects, the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo etc, etc but a lot of the artwork is more or less lost on us, or at least me, but it’s not so much about the artwork as it is about the experience of being AT THE LOUVRE!!!! We have some lunch while we’re there and sit by a window with a view I doubt I will experience again, we check out a few more exhibits and decide it’s time to get out. We take a walk through the Jardin des Tuileries which is pretty much a big wide path with amazing gardens either side that goes for about a K and a half leading up to the start of the Champs Elysee. This has absolutely solidified our perception of Paris as the most beautiful city we have seen. We turn around and walk back past the Louvre and keep going to our apartment picking up another assortment of cakes and breads and stuff to eat for dinner. The kids watch a movie while Kris and I head to the deck and eat, have a wine and get serenaded by the kid up stairs practicing his violin. He wasn’t much chop but it really made us feel like we were in Paris.
Tyler’s comments: Today we went to the Louvre. It was a place where all the old paintings were. I thought we were in the triangle but you’re in the building next door. After we walked in the park and then we went home.
Mia’s comments: Today it was a lovely day so we went to the Louvre. This is where the Mona Lisa painting is. This is one of the biggest and I mean biggest museum in the whole world.
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| "The Louvre entrance" |
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| "Inside the Louvre entrance" |
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| "Venus de Milo" |
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| "Our lunchtime view from inside the Louvre" |
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| "Walking along the Jardin des Tuileries" |
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| "Looking back at the Louvre entrance" |
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