Pont aux meuniers

After breakfast we headed out to Gare du Nord where I exhausted my megre French to purchase a ticket (“Bonjour… je suis Australian… j’nes parle pas Frances … Anglais??” – the effort seems to be appreciated and usually elicits either English or helpful sign language). Having managed to purchase a ticket we took the train to Gare de l’Est and then the Metro to “Palais-Royal Musee du Louvre. Above the Station there is a fancy-schmancy shopping centre called Carrousel de Lourve which has a kind or “back door” entrance to the Museum where the lines are apparently the shortest. Well they were certainly short today in that they were non-existent as it is a Tuesday and the Louvree is closed on a Tuesday. I actually knew this but had clearly been having some kind of brain block because I was convinced it was a Monday. So instead of visiting the museaum we had a walk around the forecourt before heading off throught the Jardin des Tuileries.vRead more