Monday (23 October ) spent a quiet day getting over the excitement of the weekend, including the excesses of food, drink, walking, rugby and generally enjoying ourselves. Published last blog, did some washing, checked and double checked all the plans for our next ‘big’ trip, see next week’s blog for more details on that!
Tuesday, looked like the best weather forecast of the week, so we decided to head to the Palace of Versailles, this involved a metro journey then an RER train. At Versailles we decided to only visit the gardens, and not the Palace itself, the queues for the Palace were crazy, and it was not cheap! In actual fact, having walked all the gardens, including the musical fountains, neither of us was up for walking any further, so the Palace and gardens may well have been to much to take in on one day! Well that’s our logic and we are sticking to it.
Wednesday, the weather was not great, we managed a short walk and a visit to the local Aldi supermarket to do some shopping, this travelling lark is not all glamour, you know.
Thursday we walked from the flat to Montmatre and the Sacré-Cœur basilica, a nice arty part of Paris with a lot more tourists, so plenty of people watching as well.
Friday, another walk, this time to the Park de la Villette, at one time it was the home of the Cattle markets of Paris, now a technology and science park. We then wandered back, via the St Martin canal and the Place de la Republic, without the protesters of Sunday.
Saturday, Rog was feeling a little worse for wear, a bit of a cold (man flu) so didn’t go out today, Nic went for a walk to the local park, one of the highest points in Paris, so a nice view over the city.
Sunday, after the rain stopped, we went to the Pere Lachaise cemetery, a large old cemetery still in use. A few interesting famous people are buried there, including Jim Morrison.
Back at the flat, we packed for an early start a 5:37 metro to Gare d’ Nord for our Eurostar.
Travurple 