Well... I'm back from Germany and on sick leave until tomorrow. On my way home yesterday, this is what Fausses-Reposes forest looked like at the edge of town: winter wonderland!
If you need a Versailles transport ticket, this is where you can buy it. The booth stands just opposite Rive Gauche train station which in turn is opposite Starbucks. This is an archive photo.
To be won at the funfair! Made me smile! And I had to laugh when I saw the intruder can, I hadn't noticed it when I took the photo. I should be on my way back today, so VDP will have its pilot back!
Not much of a view from the steamy window of bus number 171: just another bus, but somehow I liked it. I am away for a few days, VDP continues automatically. See you soon!
Autumn sky above the strikingly modern lamp posts on Avenue de Paris opposite the palace. I am away for a few days, VDP continues automatically. See you soon.
Granted, this could have been taken anywhere. I guarantee that it has been taken in Versailles and I like it. I am away for a couple of days, VDP continues on autopilot. Happy Thanksgiving to all you folks on the other side of the ocean!
Looking up and then down the staircase at a favourite shop of mine. 
Waiting for the bus with the King's stables in the background. To view the stables, click on the label below.
The Christmas stuff has been for sale for quite a while. And however hard I try to resist temptation, I usually fail dismally.
Anyone for a freshly roasted chicken? This is a bit of a household view in France, most butchers roast chicken for you. You can even buy it piping hot. I'm sorry that I won't be able to visit your blogs until tomorrow. Too busy. Conferring with Father Christmas and all that...
Another shot of the funfair for James' Weekend Reflections.
At the funfair, not quite a casino but still a way to get rid of your money.
At the big market on a Saturday. Arrogant?
The panettoni have arrived at my favourite Italian deli at Notre-Dame covered market!
A view towards the yellow chrysanthemums of the flower market as seen from one of my favourite shops the previous weekend. 
The funfair is back! I'm no fan but I like photographing it. Here's a red, red, red late afternoon shot for James' Weekend Reflections.
I have yet to tell you all about this building. Will do, will do, no time now though.
It was a November weekend... on Avenue de Paris. Not particularly cold, but wet.
Take your pick! What's on in Versailles as seen on a billboard last week. Billboards like this one are scattered around many French cities in an attempt to avoid what we call 'savage billposting'.
Blaise Pascal public garden last weekend. I wonder if some of you remember the pink spring view! It's this way. Now it is raining steadily.
The... ahum... very Parisian guide beckons you to follow the umbrella in the palace entrance crowd!
For James' Weekend Reflections, here's the equestrian statue of Louis the 14th reflected in a car last week. All about the statue and the king this way. VDP and quite a few other blogs aren't being updated on the CDP portal. Anyone know what to do about it other than posting in the technical problems forum which I already did?
This is a detail of the royal courtyard's gate at the main palace entrance. Of course, the sun is depicted as befits the palace of the Sun King. 
This week's doorway is the bookshop at the palace which happens to be where I went for my quick lunchtime errand last week.
Last Thursday, strike day, I was working from home and ran an errand at the Palace at lunchtime (uh-huh!), so I hope you will bear with me this coming week because I indulged in a few photos from the outside! This of course is the inner courtyard: the royal courtyard in the front and the marble courtyard in the distance. 
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