day seven: paris

We got up and out a little earlier today and walked towards the Louvre. As it had been the other days, it was cold and cloudy, but never actually rained.

• Breakfast was apple tarts and tea in a patisserie on Rue de St. Honoré
• We made an organized 2.5 hour dash through a few sections of the museum seeing... Italian Paintings (Mona Lisa - really small and crowded, works of David, Bottecelli, and Giotto, etc.), Roman and Greek Sculpture (Venus de Milo, Winged Victory, etc), and several galleries of ancient Egyptian pieces.
• We walked down Rue de Rivoli through a small Christmas fair towards lunch at La Victoire Supreme du coeur which was quite possibly the best meal we had eaten so far. Mmmmmm seitan escalope with mushroom creme sauce.... Robin has a mushroom roast with blackberry sauce.
  
• After lunch we walked to Centre Pompidou for the modern art museum.
• Outside the centre entrance, Robin made me sit for a charicature artist. I had been accosted by two in five minutes begging me to sit for them since my face was PERFECT to make fun of. OK, that wasn't their exact words, but having drawn myself for over 25 years, I knew what they meant.
• We saw several exhibits in the museum and wound up getting lost when we were ready to leave.
• Took the Metro back towards the hotel and grabbed two bagguette sandwiches for picnic on the bed.
• Packed for Amsterdam.

Gavin & robin