After spending a bit of time hunting down the Metre Standard I spent the rest of my Saturday afternoon at the Musee d'Orsay. This picture was taken from the middle of the bridge over the Seine which leads to the Louvre. This beautiful museum used to be a train station until it became the home of French art dated from 1848 to 1914. I guess you could consider it the historical bridge between the Louvre and the Pompidou Centre. Most of the works of Impressionist artists such as Manet, Monet, Renoir and Degas are in this museum. Those artists are great and all, but my favorite part of the whole place was the Van Gogh gallery. Most of his famous paintings are found within, and it sort of makes the three hour wait in the ticket line worth every second. My advice to those planning on visiting this museum is to get there at 8:30, a half hour before opening, in order to avoid the line that snakes around the building for what feels like miles.
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