We are now officially ‘les amis du louvre’. Joined today.

Michelle has never been to the Louvre before. Ever. So once we joined, we followed the hoards of tourists towards the Italian Painters and visited the most famous of all paintings in the Louvre, the madam herself the ‘Mona Lisa’. She has a new home, her own wall, a centrepiece. And the crowds still come. You can see all sorts of emotions on the faces of the people crushing together to get a glimpse from the front of the crowd, mostly you can see the reality flash across their faces. “She’s so small!” But she is spectacular.

Then we wound our way out. Because we can. We can go back whenever we like. No need to spend hours getting all arted out…. Stumbling across a couple of Caravaggio’s, Raphael’s, the Venus di Milo and the Borghese Gladiator (unbelievably from the 1st century BC).

Sometimes I just can’t believe we live in Paris. And now we can visit the Louvre any day, any time, for free. We can even invite guests, for free, Wednesday & Friday evenings!