From red lights to regal rites
Friday September 1
After dinner last night we took a walk through the red-light district, just a couple of blocks away from the hostel, to le Moulin Rouge. This occupied all of about half an hour as shows there are around €250!
Afterwards we went back to the hostel for a beer before hitting the sack.
Saturday September 2
Today we took the train 21 kms out of Paris to the Chateâu de Versailles in, you guessed it, Versailles. Although expensive it was worth a look and a ticket saw us through the palace's opera house and chapel as well as the bedrooms of the Bourbons. The rich history of the palace was fascinating... if walls could talk there would be tales of France's royal family, revolutionaries and revolutionary treaties, Napoleon and a 20th century European peace treaty.
We were back at the hostel by 6.30 and are now making preparations to leave for Blois, in the Loire valley (a wine-growing region) tomorrow.
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