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Having spent considerable time in the Louvre last year (see Blog Winter 2014), we decided not to revisit. We did however escorted our companions to the location. For the first time we entered from the Palais Royal Musee du Louvre Metro station; a relatively new station. To the west of the glass pyramid and underground There is now a large premium shopping complex. This provides additional entry capacity especially for groups, just as the addition of the pyramid expanded capacity, to meet today's tourism with many 2 hour visits rather than the day long visits that predominated 50 years ago.
We then proceeded to Saint Denis which I had briefly visited after work some years ago, and wished to share with Lenore.
The 3 things that we wished to see were the royal tombs and gothic architectural splendour of the basilica, and the hugh cultural change that has over taken the area with new waves of immigrants.
There are now large street markets in the area, with every variety of street vendor. Prices are low!
We stopped to have lunch in a busy eatery that I would categorise as "Islamic". The key lady at the cash register could not have been more helpful. The Décor was plan, serviceable tables and chairs with a large flat screen on the end wall playing a video loop of pilgrims in Mecca. A shared main, 2 milk coffees, and 2 small deserts cost Euro 7.80!
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