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Paris: My Wife’s Louvre Tour

November 12, 2022 / Conal

This is the second story in a four-part series
about the 15th anniversary trip my
artist wife and I took to Paris.

The day had arrived. We were visiting the Louvre on this crisp, rainy day in Paris.

However, we had the small issue of her forgetting her membership at home – on a completely separate continent – to iron out first. Fortunately, the Friends of the Louvre Society has an office near the entrance. They replace lost or forgotten membership cards for a small fee.

With a fresh duplicata membership we beelined toward the entrance.

Paris: The Friends of the Louvre

November 5, 2022 / Conal

This is the first story in a four-part series
about the 15th anniversary trip my
artist wife and I took to Paris.

There we stood; waiting in line at the Louvre. I had bought her an annual membership for our anniversary, in part, to avoid this.

Five minutes earlier we had passed through the member’s entrance at the Louvre. I had flashed my subsidiary membership card, and we breezed through the metal detector.

Once inside, however, we had to swing by la Société des Amis du Louvre (Friends of the Louvre Society).

The society’s reception office is tucked away across the giant main foyer from the main information desk.

As soon as we rounded the corner to enter the office, there it was… the line. A line we had to wait in. There was no way to avoid it.

The Louvre Top 10 Tips & Observations

October 15, 2022 / Conal

There I sat on my hotel bed in Paris. My artist wife lay beside luxuriating in the white hotel bathrobe as we unwound from our busy day in the City of Lights.

She was reading a story while I was tapping out another 500-word Saturday Morning Story on my new MacBook. It was her 15th anniversary gift to me. We had just used my gift to her — a membership to the Louvre.

As I tapped out the story, I decided that it could wait. Instead, today I provide you — free of charge — 10 of my immediate observations about the Louvre fresh from that same night, mere hours after I returned from the world’s most famous museum.