TICKETS PLEASE

Just a couple of measly weeks left..
I dont know what happened to the concept of it being warmer the more south you go, but somebody in the administration upstairs screwed it up, because it's been 10-20 degrees and raining the past month.
Great weather for visits. Salli and Ami were over for the weekend, and we took advantage of the dry spell which lasted a couple of hours on saturday and had sparkly in the Jardin de Luxembourg. Sunday we were tragically cought in by the rain in a cafe at Montmartre, drinking red wine.





On Sunday, Sissi came to stay at my place for a couple of days. We went to the Orangerie and Musée d'Orsay. The Orangerie is a museum with two large oval rooms, where Monet has painted four wallsized water lilly paintings in each.



Sissi asked me if she could travel without a ticket in Paris. I said yeah, that i hardly ever saw officials checking tickets, and that it was easy to bypass the gates if there were two of us. And they wear uniforms, so in any case, we could turn back. Well, little did I, or Sissi, know that it was the 'pirate'- campaign for checking tickets. A civilian dressed guy was watching the gates! how unfair is that towards honest cheating citizens.. Well, Sissi tried explaining that she didnt speak english, didnt have her ID and didnt have money. But when they called the police and explained the fee would be doubled when the police came, she caved in.