Musee d.Orsay

This morning I had a cup of good coffee in another on my list of good coffee places , today in the 7th arrondissment.  I timed it so that I would get to the Musee d'Orsay very soon after it opened at 9.30. This meant a very pleasant stroll around looking at mainly Impressionist painitngs for an hour or so.  Then the school groups started to arrive. I persevered for another 30 minutes but had had enough.   There are definitely more smokers in Paris than Canberra.  After I left the museum I sat down on a bench to look at a map. Just before I was about to leave , 2 ladies came and sat on the same bench but with their backs to me but less than 1 person width away from me. The lady nearest me started to smoke. I made a bit of a performance of coughing (which I am still doing anyway) and got up , but she took no notice. Ah well, not my country, not my rules.

I wandered back along the edge of the Seine, taking photos of a few new ( to me) bridges and watching the several very long and skinny barges go down the river. At one bridge I got accosted by a young woman who wanted me to sign a petition for deaf and handicapped tourists and give a 20euro donation. I declined and she started yelling at me.  Needless to say, I checked that I still had my valuables secreted away.

I had a nice but basic lunch in a back street cafe. There was a single male French speaking tourist and the rest were locals or/and workmen. Everyone seemed to know everyone else.  Also a dog who slept on whatever seat he could find that was free till he was pushed out of the way by an incoming diner.

No photos today. I had a slight mishap - caused by my impatience - which caused a problem which I cannot fix . I have spent 2 hours trying to find a work-around solution to gettting my photos off my camera. I think I may have found  a better way than before, but I have run out of time tonight.