Rainy day - Louvre

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Mary asked that I make a trip to the Louvre to take a picture of the enormous painting - The wedding feast at Cana. Well it's raining today so off I went to the Louvre. Large crowds waiting to go in consisting of French school groups and tour groups of Chinese and Japanese. Haven't noticed the Asians anywhere else in Paris, seems they only hit the major spots for a day or so and then are gone.

Well the line wasn't that bad once you're in and the Louvre is so large that it can absorb a large amount of people and still look empty. Well everyone heads to the Denon wing to see the Mona Lisa, but somethings changed, the popular Denon wing with Italian, French and Spanish paintings has changed it's photo taking policy: no photos. The reason is that certain tourists were blocking everyone from seeing the paintings by their incessant photo taking. Everyone abided by the new rules except for a few in the Asian tours, don't know why that always is (the signs are in numerous languages including Chines and Japanese).

The Mona Lisa is in a new room with the Wedding Feast of Cana opposite it. Unfortunately Mary doesn't get her photo. The rest is the Louvre is open to picture taking and without the large tour groups seems almost empty. The only groups you'll see in these areas are French art students studying paintings and sculptures.

The picture taken is to show the size of the galleries and paintings in comparison to us humans.

Off to Madeleine Peyroux at the l'Olympia tonight.

Only five days left in my Montmartre home, starting to miss it already!!!!