Dinosaur Gallery ...

... or, more precisely, the  Gallery of Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy at the Museum of Natural History in Paris.  We had never been to this gallery, which is entirely separate from the museum's main gallery, which we know well. This is in fact the upper floor, which contains fossils; the ground floor is equally large and contains myriads of skeletons of contemporary or near-historical creatures. We were with the family of our friends Marie-Madeleine and Sylvain and their children: Grégoire, Flavien, and Clotilde (left to right, in the extra). Here are visits with them last year,  in 2014, and in 2011.  (You'll find further links if you're really curious; the children's names are properly spelled here :)


Marylee met Marie-Madeleine's mother, who is French, when she was studying at Oxford in the late 1960s. Then when Marylee spent 19 months in Paris in 1990-91, Marie-Madeleine, then in her teens, stayed with Marylee when she came to Paris for her weekly classical guitar lessons.