The museum was great! It is in an old house that was was built on top of the ancient Roman baths and there are many statues, reliquaries, stained glass windows,furniture, armor, manuscripts, and tapestries (e.g., the stunning "The Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries). Many of objects were saved from other places, such as the heads of the kings which were torn down from the entrance to Notre Dame during the French Revolution. I highly recommend the museum (although the audio tour took a little too long for comfort).
After the museum, we went to a cafe overlooking Notre Dame for a quick crepe, then moved on to Shakespeare and Company. The bookshop was just as wonderful as I remembered it: too many books in too little space. This time around, I saw that there was a second floor.
The second floor had many books that were not for sale (as in Hemingway's time, when the store used to also be a library of sorts). There was also a little typewriter set in a nook. I tried to write a note on it, but sadly there was no ink.
Despite the tragedy of the ink, Shakespeare and Co. remains my favorite book store (sorry The Strand. Get some better nooks and a view of a famous cathedral and we'll talk). What better location than Paris's Quartier Latin? It's a great historical neighborhood with a lot of life still in it (and delicious smelling Greek restaurants).
In front of the metro stop, there was a large crowd watching a man do some time of mime/dance performance (portmanteau it and it was a dime performance). Perhaps, if I run out of monies I will do my own dime performance. Perhaps even a quarter performance if people are feeling generous.
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