Pickpocket Paradise

Musee du Louvre

Our first group excursion was the Louvre. To get there, ~40 individuals took the metro at once. If you know me well, then you'll know I'm not a big fan of travelling in a big pack. I’ve been all over Paris, taking one metro line after another, so I’m pretty acquainted with the system; others aren’t as adventurous as me, though. However, the ride wasn’t too bad; it was only me, my roommate and the French TA in the same wagon. So we got there. The guide was this nice, grandma-like woman that thought the tour was gonna be in English; in the end it helped ‘cause she’d say words in English that weren’t too obvious in French.

The museum is… breathtaking & overwhelming; It’s HUGE! [hehe… that’s what she said] There are so many paintings, sculptures and the like. Yeah, yeah, I’m not the artsy, museum type but with a nice guided tour I can learn quite a lot; otherwise I take pictures of stuff and move on. I don’t do much admiring. So basically, I got a myriad of pictures and now you’ll enjoy the Museum just as I did.

Some interesting info about museums here is that most of them used to be palaces. The building is the Palais du Louvre, and the Palais du Luxembourg became the senat. Old castles become historic places, and so on. Bottom line, Paris is one big museum filled with old buildings and tiny streets and ornate gardens.

PS. One of the french profs said that the Louvre is "pickpocket paradise", as the rest of Paris.