2015-09-02-Paris, FR-Isle St Louis, Left Bank & Musée d'Orsay

After visiting Notre Dame and Sainte Chapelle in the morning we crossed the short pedestrian bridge connecting Île de la Cité and Île Saint Louis a lovely, high end residential district with numerous restaurants, shops and the best ice cream shop on the planet, Glacier Berthillon. From Île Saint Louis, we crossed another pedestrian bridge across the Seine to the Left Bank where we strolled a path above the quays fringing the Seine and enjoyed fabulous views of Notre Dame. After exploring the Latin Quarter we made our way to the Musee d'Orsay, a former railway station and now home to the world's most extensive collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings, among many other treasures. We ended the day's explorations with a visit to the Conciergerie, a former prison and part of the Royal Palace where, during the French Revolution, hundreds of prisoners, including Marie Antoinette, were held prior to losing their heads at the guillotine