FranceP2

May 12, 2000

We joined up with a small tour group

for a day at the Chateau de Versailles.

With its grand ballrooms and perfect

gardens and a scale thats hard to

comprehend.

The back patio alone is two acres in

size, and how about a backyard that's

measured in kilometers!

May 13, 2000

We leave Paris on the TGV high speed rail to

Rennes, France about 350 Km west of Paris.

As is the case for most of Europe, the train is

the best form of cross-country travel. And France's

TGV is one of the fastest. We reach speeds 250mph

outside of Paris. The entire journey is about 3 hrs.

In Rennes, after an hour of frantic searching, we locate

our rental car and head off to our hotel only 1 Km away,

but arriving only after a harrowing half hour "tour" of

Old Town Rennes. (is every street one way the wrong way?)

An afternoon walking tour of the town turns out much nicer.

Many of the buildings in Old Town are 3 or 4 centuries old.

Luckily, our hotel is much newer...