Day 108, 20 October 2012, Versailles - A first trip to Paris wouldn't be complete without a visit to the Palace of Versailles. And despite it being the very end of the high season and a cold drizzly day, just us and a few 1000 other visitors made the pilgrimage. It's amazing that this huge complex is only 45 minutes on the train from central Paris and gee - we are getting so good at zipping around on the metros and trains. The utter luxury and decadence of V...

Day 107, 19 October 2012, Paris. "Le Marche" outside our hotel for quiche and salads, Visit to Musee d'Arts Decoratifs for Van Cleef & Arpels Jewellery Exhibition. Picnic in the Louvre gardens in the rain, Visit to the dead centre of town - We're coming to the end of our time in Paris and today was a day for tidying up loose ends. James was ensconced in an internet cafe working on the photos for the blog and I went to see the most amazing exhibition of ha...

Day 106, 18 October 2012, Musee de l'Orangerie, Musee d'Orsay, Notre Dame Cathedral, Montparnasse Tower - Paris - she continues. If it is physically possible to drown in fine art then we are on the precipice of doing so. We started the day at Musee de l'Orangerie on the banks of the Seine and just inside the Tuileries Gardens. As might be inferred from the name, this building gave winter shelter to the Tuileries orange trees back in 1852. It now houses aroun...

Day 105, 17 October 2012, Opera Garnier, Montmartre, Espace Dali, Moulon Rouge - "THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA IS HERE...." in box 5 actually. And it's a water tank, not a lake.... but it was originally a natural reservoir... so close enough. And thus, Day 3 of the Paris Pass extravaganza commences. We looked out the window over a black coffee and a chocolate croissant from the boulangerie next door and noticed, in passing, that the greyness had decided to turn i...

Day 104, 16 October 2012, Saint-Chapelle, O Chateau, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Arc de Triomphe, Champs Elysees (Second day of six day Paris Pass extravaganza) - We were both moving vewry, vewry, slowly (I think I'm quoting Elmer Fudd there.) A good solid 8 eights of dead to the world sleep had been achieved however so we saddled up and left the hotel. Always a good start. There was a local market literally on our doorstep this morning, seafood, fruit and vege,...