The last time I saw Paris.

Glenda and I are moving on today to Italy.  We had a great day yesterday at Versailles.  We started out late and had to wait in line over 40 minutes to buy tickets.  Rick Steves recomends you buy a Paris Museum pass or some other versailles pass so that you do not have to stand in line.  Despite the wait it was not too bad and once we had our tickets amazingly all the people in line seemed to fade into the woodwork as the Chateau and Gardens that we bought the tickets for seemed empty.    The rooms on the first floor "history of France" were closed because their was another strike this day.  The strikers did not come on the Versailles property.   The Japanesse  art exhibit was still there and like Lisa, Glenda also thought the extreme modern art was not appropriate.  I did buy a book for Emily that has the sculptures in the various rooms.  I figure the book was a twice as good buy as it had pictures of the Chateau and the Japanesse Animae figures.
Because we got there late we did not have as much time in the Gardens.  The gardens had a hazy quality to them as it was a little overcast and by the time we left at 630 it was starting to rain.   We walked to the right train station, but found out that because of the strike they were not using it for the trains.  This station called Versailles Rive Gauge is a lot closer than the Versailles Chaintier station.  I was happy to find it but not happy that I had to walk to the other station.  There were quite a few people heading back to Paris.  Still not as many as were in the waiting lines to buy tickets.  Anyway we caught the right train and got home about 9pm.  We stopped at a little restaurant on Rue Broca and had some tasty rigatoni and Cheese sauce dish.
We got home about 10 and I was exhaused.  I went on my email site and I found out that the owner had returned my inquirey regarding renting the apartment when I return in November.  I am happy about this as now I do not have to worry about where I am going to stay at that time and the apartment is very reasonable in price.  They are going to be renting it for 80 euros a night which is about 107 a day.  Not bad.
The next time I will be writing this blog I will be in Rome.