Paris, France

We had a bit of a sleep-in this morning – still tired from yesterday’s big adventure.

Today we are going to another of Paris’ famous museums – Musee d’Orsay. The museum has three floors of painting, sculptures and art decor from 1848 – 1919 as purchased by the French government. It is housed in a 1900 converted train station, refurbished in 1986 to be a museum. There are many works here by Van Gogh, Renoir & Monet amongst others, but the most famous piece would have to be Whistler’s Mother by James Whistler. It took us five hours to get through the entire collection. We picked a good day to do it, as well as the gloomy skies only bought more rain to the city.

When we finished, we decided to go home via the Metro, the walk here took us half hour and the longer the day goes on, the lazier we get.

We spent the early evening watching the rain fall, reading newspapers and writing in our diaries.

At eight pm we decided we would go out for dinner. We were going to go to a small restaurant around the corner, but it was closed, while another place was deemed too expensive. With the persistent rain and lack of shelter, we ended up buying take-away Chinese and going back to the hotel to eat it.

We’ve kind of blown the usual budget the last few days, but Paris is so expensive, it can’t be helped. And it’s well worth it. We had another night in hoping that tomorrow, for our last day on the continent, the weather will improve.