Mona Lisa Badge

Once again, I obtained this Badge whilst living in Paris. I'd go to the Louvre nearly every Wednesday, seeing as I didn't have school on that day (oh, the joys of the French system). Usually, I'd do activities organized by the Museum, but some days I'd just visit the place and on one of those days, I decided I'd go see the Mona Lisa. If you ask me, it's totally overrated. I mean, yes, it's an absolutely beautiful painting, but it's such an awful experience, being in the middle of a crowd of people trying to get as close to the painting as they can, with guards everywhere keeping you in line and being pushed around by rude tourists. Basically, you see it for less than a minute, from a few meters away, and since it's quite a small painting, it's not really worth it to me. But then again, that's just my opinion. Other people might appreciate it much more than I did, but if you're in the Louvre, I'd tell you to visit other paintings and/or sculptures that will be more worth it. There are other Da Vinci's that you can see in a much more peaceful way if that's what you really went to the Museum to see. The Museum is huge and over the time I spent living in Paris, even though I went to the Louvre nearly every week, I didn't visit the entire thing and see all of the paintings. So, I'd recommend looking around and seeing other paintings you may be interested in, because you'll probably enjoy that much more than going to see La Joconde. But if that's the one thing you really want to see, you're obviously perfectly entitled to it.
So that's it for my Mona Lisa Badge,
Toodlepip,
x Clara