Tuesday
The Orsay Museum is in an old train station, it probably is the prettiest and most complimentary museum. I mean by that that the building truly compliments the art by the way it is designed.
We grabbed a sandwich after the museum and walked to the RER train to go to Versailles. There are many transportation choices here, the RER train, like a regular train, partly in a tunnel and partly not, it basically goes to the same places as the subway. The RER has more seats, an
upstairs and downstairs section, so we took it to Versailles. We purchased a 3 day pass, for the inner city section for both train systems, but had to purchase a separate ticket
upstairs and downstairs section, so we took it to Versailles. We purchased a 3 day pass, for the inner city section for both train systems, but had to purchase a separate ticket
for the trip out to Versailles, surprisingly to me it is still just 30 minutes. I expected Versailles to feel like you are out in the country. It is a little town, with shops and many buildings, of course the back side of the Palace has gardens that are about 800 acres and another 2000 acres of land.
While at the gardens it poured down rain and we had to hang out under the trees for awhile.
The Palace was the King Louis Palace, starting with King Louis the 14th, who was the King that reigned from age 5 - 77, he had it built where his father had his hunting lodge. Louis the 15th and 16th also lived there until the Palace was stormed during the French Revolution.
For dinner we ate at La Petite Italian, very, very good food!
