The day started, as usual, by my early morning trip to the boulangerie for, “Bonjour, deux crouisant et une bagette, sil vue plait”. It is amazing how much school boy French you can remember if you are hungry. However, today I found a real treat: today’s copy of The Times newspaper.
After breakfast we set off walking again. Notre Dame Cathedral was only about 30 minutes walk away and the route took us down Boulevard Henri IV and across the Seine to Īle St Louis and then on to the Īle de la Cité. The whole route was exceptionally interesting, because it took us through the oldest part of Paris, and we therefore took longer than expected. However, we braved the crowds and entered the 12th century Cathedral with the Rose window containing the oldest stained glass in Paris.
Next we took the RER (like a double-decker Metro), for one stop, to the Musée d’Orsay. This was once a railway station, saved from demolition in the 1970s and converted into an art gallery covering the period 1848 to 1914. Here you can savour the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, including Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Manet. Not, in my humble opinion, their best works but I thought the building itself was wonderful.
After breakfast we set off walking again. Notre Dame Cathedral was only about 30 minutes walk away and the route took us down Boulevard Henri IV and across the Seine to Īle St Louis and then on to the Īle de la Cité. The whole route was exceptionally interesting, because it took us through the oldest part of Paris, and we therefore took longer than expected. However, we braved the crowds and entered the 12th century Cathedral with the Rose window containing the oldest stained glass in Paris.
Next we took the RER (like a double-decker Metro), for one stop, to the Musée d’Orsay. This was once a railway station, saved from demolition in the 1970s and converted into an art gallery covering the period 1848 to 1914. Here you can savour the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, including Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Manet. Not, in my humble opinion, their best works but I thought the building itself was wonderful.
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