"It's raining in Paris today but still so pretty! Grab an umbrella and head to a museum and stay dry! Plenty to choose from but one of my favs is the Musee d'Orsay:"
The Musee d'Orsay is one of my favourites too...where all the Impressionists are. There is a room entirely (or pretty entirely) devoted to Van Gogh. I actually wept to see all these wonderfully emotive paintings together.
Ah...Paris in the rain. When we spent 6 months in Europe (mainly France) in 1976, one day we were in Paris we travelled by train to Rheims. We toured the wonderful cathedral there and then the Mumm's cellar. They make a very special champagne called Renee Lalou, served to Queen Elizabeth and top dignitaries. We decided to splurge and buy a bottle for the equivalent of $12 at the time and save it for our first born. That was a lot of money for us since we were doing Europe on $5 a day and then heading into a year of grad studies at the University of Oregon. We were disappointed they didn't have any available but when we said we were Canadians, they found a bottle. At the time, Seagrams of Canada had bought Mumms.
When we returned to Paris and exited the metro, there was a tremendous thunderstorm going on (it was the summer) and we ran to our apartment in Pigalle. We were soaking wet, we jumped into bed to warm up, then cracked open the champagne and drank it. Ah...well, it probably would have got broken when we were travelling around.
