Vinci Vincero

Just as we returned to Londontown from Paris, they had wrapped up principal photography for the unfilmable book "The Da Vinci Code".
As photography within The House of God and Kings is forbidden, the Lincoln Cathedral is an able stand-in. We walked by Temple Church but owing to some official appearing function skipped checking out the effigies within.




The principal paintings in the Louvre, we were assured, had not been written over with bodily fluids as detailed explicitly in the book. If you are going this Spring, check out the Da Vinci Soundwalk. The cloest cash dispenser is the Post Office (beyond security, exact euros only) as they do not take VISA. Everywhere else you want to be. Tip: every Japanese tourist wants to head to La Joconde. Your best bet is to get an 0830 entry pass and rush in through the Virgin MegaStore entry hall (shorter security lines because everyone else will come through the Pyramid in Napoleon's Square) and head straight to the Denon Wing (make left turns always) to Salle 13. It is where most people are headed and there are pictorial clues. They know why you are there.

We saw the Virgin at the National Gallery off Trafalgar Square. The changes in the image of Virgin on the Rocks reminds me of those pictorials at the bottom of the Sunday Comics. Can you spot the difference that was demanded by the outraged nunnery?