London/Paris, 7Jan - Musee d'Orsay, Harley Dealer, Charlie Hebdo

We took the metro/RER to the Musee D'Orsay which was very cool. Got to see Van Gogh and Monet and discovered a new (to me) artist, Paul Signac. I loved the museum and my French came in handy reading the plaques with each painting. We stopped at a cafe in the museum to have coffee/wine/dessert and fill out our postcards. Then we walked around a bit more and found a gallery "off to the side" we hadn't noticed and were checking things out when we saw/heard cop cars on the street running along the Seine. Paris is a big city, so cops buzzing around wasn't that big of a deal. After we got done at the museum, we took the metro over to get t-shirts at the Harley dealer. When we got into the dealer, they were talking in hushed tones as if someone had died. As we checked out, the lady asked if we'd heard the news. No, what news? There was a terrorist attack in Paris and 12 people were dead! Not only that, but the attack was just a few blocks away from the H-D dealer. So, we missed the attacks by about an hour (our dawdling at the museum!) and a few blocks. We had lunch at a cafe and caught up on the news (cafe had wifi). We went back to Pigalle, mailed our postcards and had dinner at a cafe on Rue des Abbesses. I tried to buy a copy of that week's Charlie Hebdo at a newsstand, but they were out. (if you want, go to Google maps and put in the address of Charlie Hebdo, 10 Rue Nicolas Appert, Paris, France and then look for the Chemin Vert metro station, that's the station we got off at, Harley dealer is right there.