We had rain and the sky for most of the day was dark and threatening. There was quite a bit of wind so we ate in a cafe rather than sitting outside where we could watch people passing by. Then we decided rain or shine we’d get onto a subway and head out to the Louvre. But when we stepped outside of the subway we saw the cafe that we sat in 10 years ago on our first visit to Paris and we just had to have a look. The inside hadn’t changed much with a dark moody lighting and the scruffy unpolished wooden floors. But the best part of the place is that the back room, known as the library room, is still there and the walls are filled with book in every speakable language on this earth and are there for the patron’s use. What fun.
After a cup of coffee (I had mine poured over a glass of vanilla Ice cream) we walked across the street to the Louvre. By then the sun was streaming through the parting clouds and it was just too beautiful to go indoors no matter what would be waiting for us within those magnaficant walls.
A musician played classical music inside one of the alcoves and he make the place feel even more magical than it already was.
