The entrance below ground is almost as impressive as the buildings above. Surprisingly, the entry hall almost looks like the entry concourse in the movie “Men in black”, all that is missing, is the aliens (we presume). 
We saw a fraction of the Lourve today, it is vast and impressive. Lourve has at least five public levels all of which are expansive.
The art in one hall had at least 30 Renaissance master’s work. We found it astounding to see pieces of work that normally you would see in history books or art books hanging on the wall some actually within touch.
We also classical work. Elsewhere in the museum, there is works from almost every ancient civilisation.
We saw furniture and decorations from Versailles. The Versailles furniture probably should be returned to the palace.
French art and relics of every time period. It had a vast collection of tapestries, statuettes, paintings furniture, weapons and almost anything you can imagine on display.
Eventually we stopped due to wanting to further explore the city and our feet wanting to fall off. Before we left we bought a coffee at a Starbucks which seems a sacrilege at the Louvre but it tasted good and not a bad price.
As we left, some African gentlemen aggressively requested/demanded tickets of the patrons as they left the Lourve. They appeared to the tourist as potential security. They demanded, “Tickets, where are your tickets”. However leaving the area (Lourve Carousel shopping centre) the Lourve patrons didn’t require a ticket to be in the shopping hall. They were not interested in checking online tickets located on mobile phones, just tickets that were paper and these they snatched quickly from the unexpected visitors that presented them on their demand. We believe the tickets were then on sold because everywhere there are signs warning people not to buy tickets from Touters. Obviously theissue is anyone who buys a ticket from them is using a already validated ticket so therefore it’s useless. It is our opinion, these ‘gentlemen’ are a public nuisance and should be moved on by the police preferably in paddy wagon. We saw one group of foreign patrons in front of us get very concerned and confused by the aggressive demand. Certainly we were concerned that they might get more aggressive if we couldn’t present the ticket. They disappeared very quickly when they sourced tickets from a group behind us. To confuse tourists further they were dressed in outfits resembling military fatigues. Scum! These were by far the worst scammers we have come across.
After quick lunch, we took a two different 2 hour bus tours around the city taking in many landmarks.
For dinner we visited a quaint and busy little cafe called 12 Buffet Bar in one the many arcades near our apartment. Experience at dinner was educational. Either we found a “Dad and Dave” style cafe or they thought we were English or they were just busy, either way the experience took two hours to complete and the food was very ordinary compared to other meals we have had in Paris.
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