Paris Notes

Every guidebook in Paris talks about the Museum Pass. It is a two, four, or six day pass that lets you into a plethora of museums in town. That is good, and can even save you money if you go to a lot of museums. But more importantly, it lets you cut the line.

Most every museum has a special entrance for groups and pass holders. There is almost never a line at these entrances. For example when we visited the l’Orangerie (The little museum with all the Monet water lilies) there was a two hour wait in line. We walked in without so much as a how do you do.

So we bought our pass Monday. The key is to buy the pass at a small museum. We got ours at the Picasso Museum. One of our favorites. There was no line.

Later that afternoon we went to the Louvre to see some of that museum that we rarely visit. It was nice to be in a part of the Louvre that was relatively empty (by the way, I forgot to mention that when we were at Versailles today there were times walking around when we saw not one single person. Amazing)

That evening we ate at Bofinger (more later) and saw the opera. It was Salome, book by Oscar Wilde, music by Richard Strauss. The best thing about the Opera was that it was one act! Oh, and Salome got naked.