Museum Ready, Set, Go

Monday was the day that everyone started the all important Paris Museum Pass. The pass gives a holder 6 consecutive days to visit any or all of the sights on the pass.  The challenge is to visit as many sites as possible to see if one can get more value than the retail cost for the pass.  Understand the challenge, now? (Yes, yes, it is supposed to be a better deal but can you optimize that deal?  74 Euro is the cost to beat)   The Cheap Girls feel up to the challenge.

After the previous days 11 mile walk, Greg and Don have dumped the others for a more relaxing day.  They left talking about walking less than 10 miles and drinking while they did it.

The others began their museum tour with a visit to the Chateau de Vincennes. The group (Debbie) was a little concerned because the pass holder just wrote the date on the ticket in ink.  It seemed like this could open up the pass to cheating.  Joyce seemed rather excited by this prospect.   History Moment:  The Château de Vincennes is a massive 14th and 17th century French royal fortress in the town of Vincennes, to the east of Paris, now a suburb of the metropolis.  (Retail cost:  8.50 Euro).  An interesting fact – on the first visit of the four to Paris in 2003; they stayed close to the Chateau and walked past it everyday at least twice.  (Note to their children – oops. )  It was interesting but not fully furnished or rebuilt.  An art exhibit was held in some of the areas that lacked restoration in order to promote more traffic.  (Maybe they should consider using the cemetery’s marketing firm).  The exhibit was confusing to ours visitors  and sometimes seemed just weird.  Debbie thought the paint was running down the buildings until Joyce explained that it is part of the art experience.  Larry really liked the property.  He kept walking the perimeter as if he was inspecting the property and told the others the could call him King Larry.  They declined.

Since Greg was not with the group for lunch, standards fell a bit.  It was gyros at a terrific price but felt that Greg would frown on the rating.  The group learned how to buy “Take Away” and secretly brought gyros home to eat  later  but didn’t share this detail with Greg.

Next stop was home  (Remember 11 miles yesterday and our office neighbors would worry if we were gone too long).  Most people fell asleep with the excuse that they were preparing for a late night.

The second stop on the museum pass that day was the Arc de Triomphe de l’Etoile. Long History Moment:  The Arc de Triomphe honors those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.  Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944 and 1945. (Some of us remember this from school)  After the interment of the Unknown Soldier, however, all military parades  have avoided marching through the actual arch. The route taken is up to the arch and then around its side, out of respect for the tomb and its symbolism. Both Hitler in 1940 and de Gaulle in 1944 observed this custom.

Best of all you can walk up to the top of the Arc.  (Retail value 9.50 Euro) The La Cheap Girls (They thought the La made them sound more sophisticated)  were all over it.   Little Miss Analyst (Debbie who counts steps as she walks, calculates the percentage to completion and gives herself pep talks while climbing) had researched that it was 284 steps.  Joyce felt that they could do 284.  Debbie was maybe not quite as enthused but game.  Jerry and Larry just walked away from the entrance after learning the number of steps and said that they went up last time.  The La Cheap Girls took off with Debbie shouting out the percentage left until she got too winded to talk.  They made friends with other huffing climbers and eventually made it to the top.  Victory pictures for everyone at the top taken by their new friends.  Meanwhile, Larry and Jerry watched a police action with barricaded streets, police cars and lots of action.  They were not upset at all about missing the top and excited about the police action.

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Total Museum Pass value thus far – 19 Euro.