Saturday 24th September

After many hours of typing over the last couple of days I managed to lose all of the blogs for the weekend and can’t work out why or even blame an airline, can just hope I temember

Never Trust Packets of White Powder

Another busty day ahead with our planned trip to the Palace at Versailles With a bit of washing to be done before leaving it meant a frantic search for washing powder. There it was where Jane left it right on top of the tea bags – no wonder yesterdays cup of tea was so bad with that ‘sugar’ in it. No need for the Silly Old Man Look from Jane I felt stupid enough.

We played train lotto and arrived at Regionsl railway platform to find chaos with a 35 minute wait followed by a cancellation- not only planes we have problems with.

Many tourists headed for buses or home but we held on to be tewsrded with a reinvented train in 5 minutes, with plenty of seats.

We arrived at the sprawling 800 acre estate with 3000 other people. The palace whch housed 6000 people in its hayday was spectacular both inside and out, with Louis XIV’s penchant for opulence quite obvious.

The inside was full of paintings, sculptures , furnishings and artifacts, with the Hall of Mirtors a standout.

After a sensory overload we wandered the estate full of of its, canals, lakes, forests , fountains with choreographed music and a couple of smaller palaces and hunting lodges to boot.

The amazing thing was that with all these recreational areas you could not sit down and have a picnic. Our fare was to be eaten elsewhere- our apartment on the bed.

With rain starting and an understanding of why the people revolted against the aristocracy we headed back to home.

After no Wi-Fi at palace we lost our chance to book tickets for the Spurs Liverpool match on Tottenham website.

The only option was to defer to a tour provider to pay an undisclisable price for two tickets on the 3 rd Level of grandstand in a box. At least we were in.

Spent the afternoon roving the markets and plonking ourselves in a cafe bar sipping cocktails watching the crowds go by before heading off for a dinner by the Seine.