My sister Victoria has helpfully provided me with a few top choices for museums, and so I start with the Decorative Arts at the Louvre After a quick bite (ok, 90 mins for a coffee, who’s in a rush \ud83d\ude09 I head across the Seine to the Musee d’Orsay. <\/p>\n
I find myself wandering again looking for a nice spot for dinner (how did it get to be 11pm?!) and finally find an open door at the Cafe de la Paix. I plant myself at the bar for a nice pre-dinner martini, and have a chance to look about. This place it a bit of a museum itself, perfect French Baroque decor, waiters all with a cloth over their arms, and hmmm, I’m the only one in the place not in a tuxedo! If fact, I’m in my museum comfort outfit of jeans and a t-shirt. Well, I wait to see what happens, but they seat me at a nice table (_not_ hidden in the back like in Japan I might add \ud83d\ude09 and I get an excellent salmon with white wine. They never batted an eye at my attire. I guess I’d expected more “snooty” French attitude, and was a little, well, disappointed! Perhaps they thought I was a rock star or some Hollywood type \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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