Part 3

The town of Chartres and it's remarkably well-preserved cathedral.

Yikes! A metro strike!  We'd walked to the train station from the hotel in the morning, about a 35 minute walk, and were going to try to take the metro back, even though there was a strike on. Supposedly 20% of the trains were running, so we figured we would just have to wait a little.  But after about 10 minutes of waiting, there was an announcement saying that our metro line wasn't going to get any trains.  This is an anti-strike essay taped up on the wall, talking about how the strikers are paid for their strike hours, only work 32 hours a week anyway, etc, etc.