Another busy day in Paris. We were at the Museum just after it opened, and already the line was fairly long.
We got tickets to include the Manet exhibition, although we enjoyed the rest of the museum rather more than the Manet.
(I'm more of a Monet man than a Manet man.)
We saw lots of famous paintings, including a Van Gogh self portrait and Monet's Houses of Parliament. As expected, it was strictly no photos, so we've bought books and postcards.
Sadly Nicky's favourite polar bear sculpture was not on display, so we had to make do with a postcard of that as well.
After the museum we found a café for lunch (croque monsieur for Nicky, onion soup for me) and had a look at some of the artists' stands along the Left Bank.
Crossing the river we had a look around the underground mall at the Louvre (I got a good photo of the inverted pyramid) and then got on the open top bus, which in a roundabout way brought us back to the Champs Elysees.
This evening we've had dinner at the hotel restaurant. Tried to go to the restaurant around the corner as recommended by Erica but it was closed.