Sunday, April 3, 2011

Sunday stroll

1) Note: don't go to the Musée d'Orsay on the first Sunday of the month when it is free
2) Note: don't go to the Panthéon while it is closed
So our first two plans didn't work out for us today, but we came up with plan #3 and it worked pretty well. We visited the Cluny Museum, where we saw 500 year old tapestries,
other Medieval art, and the famous Kings of Judah heads from Notre Dame (beheaded during the revolution, buried, and not discovered until 1977).
We then walked to St. Sulpice church, where we saw some Delacroix paintings, and missed the organ concert, but saw the famous organ player, Daniel Roth, as he was leaving. We walked to St. German des Près (oldest church in Paris), had lunch at a sandwich place, then did half of Rick Steves' Left Bank walking tour. We saw the famous "grand cafés"- Café Flore, Les Deux Magots, and Brasserie Lipp. We also saw George Sand's apartment and the hotel where Oscar Wilde died in 1900. We did a quick (15 minute) tour of the Delacroix museum, and ended our walk on the Pont des Arts over the Seine. We continued on, across the Louvre, to the gardens of the Palais Royal.
Supper was at an Asian restaurant on... rue Cler. We walked around the Eiffel Tower then walked back to rue Cler for overpriced hot chocolate.

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