Ok, so we have just arrived back from our tour arround the family and I have some time before we leave to catch you up on all the things we have done since I last wrote. First let me finish the paris addition, which I ran out of time for.
Our last full day was spent mostly at the Louvre, which we were lucky enough to view for free. However, being the first Sunday in the month meant that the rest of France also was lucky enough to come for free, so we arrived dot on opening time. By 12:00 the place looked like this!! 
you barely had room to walk. We decided to focus on paintings as the place was so vast that it would have taken us days to get around all of it. None the less I was still aghast at the number of paintings contained in these four walls (hardly just 4 walls, since this was once a palace with every room more elabarate than the last.) apparantly there are over 30 thousand! 
My favourites were mostly from the 1300-1400, because I had studied art history at school. I saw 3 Botticelli frescoes like this one - Venus and the 3 Graces, Raphael, and of course diVinci's the Mona Lisa. Photos were alittle hard to get because of the huge crowd. Everything about the Louvre was awe-inspiring!
you barely had room to walk. We decided to focus on paintings as the place was so vast that it would have taken us days to get around all of it. None the less I was still aghast at the number of paintings contained in these four walls (hardly just 4 walls, since this was once a palace with every room more elabarate than the last.) apparantly there are over 30 thousand! 
My favourites were mostly from the 1300-1400, because I had studied art history at school. I saw 3 Botticelli frescoes like this one - Venus and the 3 Graces, Raphael, and of course diVinci's the Mona Lisa. Photos were alittle hard to get because of the huge crowd. Everything about the Louvre was awe-inspiring!
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