Paris

It was a nice day to take the train yesterday evening. The TGV travels at close to 300 km an hour and posts close by fly by in a blur as the French countryside rolls by. But the train is nice and stable and in 2 hours I am in Paris. I hadn't been in Paris in a long time and forgot how nice it is.

With Anne and David in a café across from the Louvre.

Today is the perfect day to be in Paris. The sky is blue with a light wind. Temperature probably around 23 degrees. Tuesday the Louvre is closed. But we get to see the behind the scenes, going into the research and restoration department, underground. Laboratories abound with people working meticulously over centuries old pantings and vases. David Kolin, a scientist we were filming said there were people working for months and months to restore just a few square centimetres of a painting.

A great day to be in Paris!

It is not easy to film in the Louvre, nor any museum for that matter. In Greece, we had to pay and in the Louvre, we needed written permission to even film outside. And sure enough, when we went outside to film the pyramid and around a security man came up within just a few minutes.


After the filming, we even had a little time to enjoy Paris, sitting on a wooden bridge across the Seine and had lunch on a terrace in a café. Our train for Brussels leaves at 19:01!