After waiting on the train and then having the train go back one stop, we returned to Les Invalide and noticed some guys apparently answering questions. There were no written notices about any routing changes. We should have checked the RER web site (and hunted for this closure) to see that they re-routed passengers to buses at the stop called Les Invalides - one stop before Musee d'Orsay.
Then we made another decision to regret, we got on their 'free bus' knowing that it did go to the museum. However, it went to the museum by way of Gare d'Austerlitz (almost to the edge of Paris) and a change of bus and then back by way of Notre Dame and Ile de la Cite - with incredible crowds trying to get on the bus. An hour and a half late, we arrived as did everyone else in Paris. We could have walked to the museum in less than 10 minutes!
The bus ride did provide an apartment building that was interesting.
But it was mainly a pain. There was an Asian coupe who didn't understand and the bus people couldn't help them, but we heard they wanted to get to the museum so we had them tag along.
There was an English couple who had wanted to Notre Dame as one of their grandchildren was due to sing there and they were also irate. We had a nice chat and they finally arrived in time for the concert.
Musee d'Orsee is an old train station converted to this museum, but there were no pictures allowed (oh goodie) so check out the museum link. We tried to do Rick Steves museum tour, but many parts were hard to find so we used the book and saw some wonderful masterpieces.
We left and went to Rue Cler for lunch and to do a bit of shopping and then went home.
Lee got an excellent haircut from a lady in Le Port Marly and we got home in time for the rains to start again.Short video on YouTube shows a bit of the Storm.
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