BooHoo We're Derailed Again 8-6-15

Today started out with lots of sun and a little breeze to keep things cool for a bit, so we took our bus down to the Place des Bourse to attend a marche aux brocantes.  But wouldn't you know it, it turned out to be a misprint or something because there was absolutely nothing going on when we got there. We walked around a couple blocks to be sure that the map mark on google maps was not placed carelessly, but still no luck.   But we did have a nice walk through the Passage du Panorama, one of the popular passages (covered alleys) along the Grand Boulevards.

 We had lunch at a new place which we will divulge later after we've had a bit of time to research it.

Then we made the decision to divert to the Louvre for a few hours to see some things that have been bypassed before in our determination to either view other things ourselves or because we've been with guests who wanted to see other things.  Today we spent time going through several rooms of Greek and Roman sculpture.  At one extreme end of this set of rooms is displayed the Venus de Milo, we've taken several trips either to see here or by her on our way to other things but we've never spent time in the rooms leading from the main entry up to her plinth.

It is the case that if you can only see a few top selections you would likely only spend time seeing her, but we have time and membership on our side so today was the perfect day to see it all in detail.  As usual for summer it was crowded but mostly at the end with the Venus, so we had a very enjoyable viewing of the other rooms.   A goodly number of Greek sculpture interspersed with Roman copies from earlier Greek bronzes.  

I really loved seeing the busts of Alexander, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle done by Lysippus one of the famed Greek sculptors from around 300 BCE.

Hot bus ride back to the apartment.