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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (100176)	4/2/2005 12:11:43 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

We had a good time and no problems until they shut down O'Hare airport for a thunderstorm and canceled our flight home, but even that "disaster" only cost about $65 to remain overnight in Chicago. I am not sure I will ever go back to the Louvre, however. I got caught in a tsunami of mostly American tourists who were hellbent on getting from the Winged Victory to the Mona Lisa as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left. I did not WANT to see the Mona Lisa but I was carried past it anyway! I most enjoyed visiting the basilica of St. Denis, which you can get to using just an ordinary metro ticket--but you want to be there when the tombs and monuments of all the kings and queens of France are open (ticket about 6 euros or so), which is probably most of the time. We were there on Easter Sunday and I guess mass was just over, so we had to wait a little. There's a life-sized statue of Marie Antoinette with much exposed bosom that has been often groped, to judge from the discoloration of the marble there. There are about 1% of the tourists that would be at Notre Dame at the same time and just as much worth seeing as at Notre Dame, or almost.