Vincennes

Today is the last day of school holidays.  It also happened to be a lovely crisp fall day - and the forecast for next week is rain.  So we went to the park de Vincennes on the edge of Paris.  It's the largest park in  Paris.  There is also a castle there, le château de Vincennes.  It's a 14th century castle, which served as a royal residence for a number of kings in the 14th and 15th centuries.  Medieval castles seem really rather small and uncomfortable compared with renaissance palaces.

What we were really there for was not the castle, but the park, so after a quick tour of the keep, we found a vélib station to get some bikes for a spin around the park.