Saturday, 3 January 2026

Musee D'Orsay and the Champs Elysee

Don't ever book trips through Viator. I used them for booking tickets to Musee D'Orsay.  They claim they will deliver the tickets the day before, but they didn't and their automated system just takes you round in circles. Beckay had the same problem with them when she booked tickets for the Arc de Triomphe . In the end we had to contact the tour provider directly to get the tickets.  

The Musee D'Orsay is a newer museum in a building that used to be a railway station.  It houses artworks mainly by French artists although the did have quite a few paintings by Van Gogh.   




We were there early, but after a couple of hours it was packed and you couldn't get near the paintings anymore,  so we left shortly after lunch and headed over to the Champs Elysee to do some shopping and had a late lunch there at a restaurant called La Folie. Had a lovely duck parmentier and a champagne cocktail with creme de mure.


In the evening we went back to the Brasserie near the hotel for hot chocolate  with cointreau.

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