2007-03-23 The Louvre

Sibi: The Louvre is vraiment big, the Mona Lisa surprisingly small.

Stef: But right opposing her you can find the largest picture in the Louvre, the "Wedding to Kanaa".

Sibi: Many beautiful statues that I would like to place in my future garden. But I really don't understand the fuzz about the headless thing on the stone-boat (Stef: The Nike).

Stef: Sometimes guidebooks are really helpful. We knew exactly where to get our tickets without having to wait. Right next to the ticket-counter: more stones Sibi would like to have (but now for our living-room).

Sibi: After the first 20 pictures with biblical motives you simply tune out.

Stef: The Venus de Milo is beefier than me. Yippie!

Sibi: Note to myself - battle-tableaux have to be at least 5x7 meters.

Stef: And Napoleon appears to be larger-than-life on those paintings. Thinking of it, someone who has to crown himself is prone to megalomania.

After leaving the Louvre, we were totally spent. We planned on taking a nap and then going out, but we went to the supermarket instead and bought some typical French food that we ate on our hotel bed . By the way: Never, ever consider taking your lunch in the Louvre. It's way to pricy and really bad.

Some last remarks:

Sibi: What a pity! The photo booths in the train stations don't have a gap beneath them where you can hide your ugly pictures.

Stef: And you have to close your nose while taking them. All "separées" are probably used as toilets by the "clochards". Reminds me of the scary toilet I saw near the Eiffel tower. Entering them would be lethal. You'd have to burn your wellingtons.

Sibi: I wish the metro in Hannover would drive as often as here in Paris.