Paris our way.

It rained all day yesterday here in Paris. We had planned to drive to Normandy but that is a bucket list item that will have to wait until next time. We needed a day of taking it easy, not that we stayed inside. We hopped on the Paris Metro (subway) to travel back downtown.  We went to the Golden Dome where Napoleon Bonaparte is entombed in 6 caskets according to one of our travel directors. This was to ensure that he never returns!

Next stop was off to the Louvre, the original palace of French Kings, when Louis XIV moved there from Paris to build a palace to rival the Schonbrunn Palace in Austria.  The Louvre is now a giant art museum and houses the Monna Lisa painting by Leonardo da Vinci.

 

 

By the time we got through the crowds and saw a couple of other things we were done, so it was time to find a café and sit at their outdoor tables and watch the world go by like they do in Paris.

A few glasses of wine, a chocolate crepe and about two hours later, we decided to get back out in the rain and go back to our hotel.  Dinner was at a very nice little restaurant at the end of the street .. what a wonderful day!