Toute est magnifique!!!  You were lucky to have such a clear day when you went to Sacr�-Coeur.  Usually in January it’s foggy and rainy and after climbing all those steps you can hardly see the basilique.

 

You got a fantastic shot of La Joconde!  (Mona Lisa)  Usually there are so many people you can’t get close enough for a picture.  I used to spend every Sunday at the Louvre when I lived in Paris.  Except in the summer when there were too many tourists.  I never saw it all.  Perhaps my favorite of all the Parisian museums is l’Orangerie.  I could sit for hours and look at all the beautiful Impressionist paintings.

 

Out of all the 303 stops on the Paris M�tro, the Louvre-Rivoli has to be the most beautiful.  I remember the first time I saw that station and I was absolutely floored by the beauty.

 

About the Cath�drale de Notre Dame, I went to Christmas Eve mass one year.  It was one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever had.

 

En esp�rant de voir beaucoup plus!

The Louvre wasn’t terribly crowded luckily, and I think that’s why I was able to get such a good shot of the Mona Lisa. There was a little crowd around it, but I used the zoom on my iPhone 7 Plus camera to get the shot.

 

I know that I was very lucky to have the clear day at Sacr�-Coeur. As a matter of fact, by the time I got back down to the town it was already clouding over. But I was fooled by my good fortune and went out in the afternoon without my umbrella, the only time I had done that. I wound up getting rained on, a light, steady, constant drizzle which never seemed to quit.

 

David