Advantages: Beautiful building, The Mona Lisa, great collections Disadvantages: None
I recently took a trip to Paris and one of the things that I really wanted to see was the Louvre, or to give it it's correct name, The Musée du Louvre. The Louvre is the largest national museum of France, the most visited museum in the world, and a historic monument. It is a central landmark of Paris, located on the Right Bank of the Seine.
To me the building itself is worth seeing just on it's own as it's as beautiful inside as it is outside and a spectacle to be seen. According to an article I read the museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II. The museum opened on 10 August 1793.
On the outside of the building you will see the famous pyramids. The largest pyramid actually is the main entrance to the museum. which is then surrounded by three ...
Advantages: Quick delivery, blinds look good, and reduce heat reasonably well Disadvantages: Poor customer service
Just ordered some blinds from webblinds. The company didn't provide screws or plugs to install them into ordinary plasterboard and wasn't even able to advise as to what I needed. Their advice: take the blinds to a DIY store and ask them for advice as to what I need. I find it extremely disappointing that the company doesn't provide the proper materials to fit the blinds in a very standard construction material; the notion that having spent several hundred pounds I now need to go to a DIY store is somewhat bewildering to me. The attitude of the company's helpline when I raised this issue was also quite unhelpful. We went with this company because they were associated with Hillary's but I really wouldn't recommend this company at all now for all the hassle this is causing.
Update 2 weeks later: have now been to Robert Dyas and purchased ...
nairda72 09.03.2009 (14.08.2009)
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Advantages: Really pretty courtyard Disadvantages: No provisions for immense heat
I'm going to go against the general consensus view and say that I really didn't enjoy the Louvre. In fact after seeing two exhibitions me and my sister left early! I will explain my opinion and visit, but I am not going to go into a lot of depth about the museum because all that information can be obtained from http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp which can be changed to English by clicking in the top right.
For starters, upon entering the court yard with the famous pyramid I was rather impressed with the building. I loved the architecture and the fountains and walkways. This part of the Louvre is free to enter so if you just want to stroll around there it wont cost you anything. After this we walked around for a bit attempting to find the entrance and when we did we went down several escalators to the part of the building directly ...
rachieb123 30.07.2009 (31.07.2009)
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