Day 107, 19 October 2012, Paris. "Le Marche" outside our hotel for quiche and salads, Visit to Musee d'Arts Decoratifs for Van Cleef & Arpels Jewellery Exhibition. Picnic in the Louvre gardens in the rain, Visit to the dead centre of town - We're coming to the end of our time in Paris and today was a day for tidying up loose ends. James was ensconced in an internet cafe working on the photos for the blog and I went to see the most amazing exhibition of hand made jewellery by one of France's top jewellers - Van Cleef & Arpels. Perhaps 95% of the attendees were female and the other 5% were keeping their wallets close by in case a post-exhibition visit to the jewellers' headquarters just a couple of streets over was proposed. It was a brilliant display with over 500 pieces stunningly lit and organised by decade. There was also a helpful commentary on how the events of each decade informed the designs of the time - for instance the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the 1920s led to Egyptian inspired pieces. With my eyes still glittering I reconnected with James and we took our quiches, salads and a baguette and set up our picnic sheltered under the trees in the Louvre gardens. Whilst there were many places we could have gone and utilised our free Paris Pass entry, we were both a bit snuffly and a bit (ok, quite a bit) exhausted after our crazy week in Paris, so we went to the large housing estate a couple of streets from our hotel to visit an old friend called Jim. That's right, the dead centre of Paris... Pere Lachaise Cemetiere. It seemed rude just to wander the streets with no purpose, so we consulted the maps and visited the tomb of Jim Morrison of The Doors. Quite moving to see lit candles and flowers still on his grave. We wondered in passing if the owner-inhabitants of the surrounding plots murmur under their breaths about that crazy young rockstar neighbour of theirs bringing down the neighbourhood. C'est la vie (C'est la mort?). So be it.