Day 4: Paris & TGV to Avignon

Our day started in Paris, where most of the group headed to the beautiful Musee D'Orsay.  The former train station was converted to a museum in the 1980s and houses the world's finest collection of Impressionist and post Impressionist painters.  It's a gorgeous building in it's own right, with the old train station clocks prominent at both ends.  After the museum we all transferred to Gare Lyon train station, where we took the high speed train south to Provence and the lovely medieval city of Avignon.  We had a delicious dinner at the Ceaveau du Theatre restaurant washed down with some good cotes du Rhone wines.

Our starter of melon, barley & prosciutto with a citrus dressing....Delicious!

Restaurant Theatre du Caveau

Our double decker TGV train departs Avignon

In front of the fabulous Musee D'Orsay

The exile of Cain, one of the dramatic pictures from the Musee D'Orsay

Inside the Musee D'Orsay, the railway station converted into a Museum

Art Noveau room at the Musee D'Orsay

A statue from the Musee D'Orsay

Add the restaurant in front of the clock.

View to Sacre Coeur from Musee D'Orsay

View to the Louvre from behind the old railway clock

The old museum clock