After breakfast in our apartment, a stop at a café for our mid morning 'café' (coffee), and a walk along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, across Place de la Concorde and through Jardin des Tuileries we arrived at the Musée du Louvre only to be reminded that the museum is closed on Merdi (Tuesday)
Not to fear, backup plan instigated, we headed across the Seine for the Musée D'Orsay, yet another fantastic Parisian museum. Musée D'Orsay houses a great collection of Vincent van Gogh paintings including some of the most famous pieces of his. It was amazing to see these well known paintings so closely and to be able to see the thickness of his paint strokes, his technique and experience the three dimensional aspect of how he painted his paintings. It is really a shame that Vincent was not recognised for the genius he was as an artist whilst he was alive. Such can be the cost of a mental illness.
AFter 4 hours in the museum we headed back home and made some vegan tacos for dinner which we enjoyed with a bottle a great Bordeaux vin rouge.
