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Refusing to queue for the Mona Lisa changed how I see travel.
I wandered the Louvre's lesser halls... and found more peace there.
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jordan_sullivan407mo ago
I got stuck in that Mona Lisa crowd once and felt like livestock. Which of the smaller halls ended up being your favorite? I remember the French Crown Jewels room being almost empty and kind of amazing. What do you think makes people skip over those spots for the one famous painting?
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markhall7mo ago
Notice how tour groups herd people straight to the Mona Lisa, @jordan_sullivan40. It creates a fear of missing out on the "must-see" item. That's why your Crown Jewels find felt like a secret victory.
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kelly_schmidt7mo ago
Yeah, it's like Markhall said about the herd mentality, but worse because half the crowd is just taking a blurry phone pic to prove they were there. I spent twenty minutes actually looking at the French Crown Jewels from the 1700s without getting shoved, and that beats a distant glance at a tiny, behind-glass painting any day.
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