Well we have 10 days before we come back to the U.S. and today we continued our goodbye tour. The last time we came out to see the museum we ended up spending the whole afternoon at La Goelette. That's the restaurant that sits on an island in the Seine and to reach it you have to ring a bell which summons them to pick you up in a speedboat for the ride over to the restaurant. 
We were determined to see the museum today, it is dedicated to all the barges and bargemen that plied the Seine from time out of mind. It's so little and quirky that I loved it the first time I visited and I was determined that Deb should see it as well. So although it was raining (surprise surprise) we caught the metro over to St. Lazare and the boarded the RER train out to Conflans St. Honorine. We got there just after noon, and of course the museum is closed from noon to two for lunch. So we caught the next train over to Andresy, where La Goelette is located. This place is one of our all time favorite restaurants in France, bar none. So along with the Table of Alonzo down in Provence, La Goelette makes two stellar places that I would go out of my way to enjoy a meal. 
Deb started out with an entree of escargot ravioli in a light curry, while I had a house smoked salmon with caviar and clotted cream on buttered toast. For the plat Deb had a Sole Meuniere and I had Lotte with provencal
eggplant, tomato, and zucchini. We then shared a house made coffee ice cream and Pan Perdu that came from the grandmother of the owner. But we didn't have the vintage cognacs this time and we were able to get out by 3:00. So we went to the museum.
I can't explain it but I just love this little museum, it's only about 4 rooms but it has art, barge models, scale model reliefs of locks and bridges, bells, cut aways of barges, medals, pottery, an entire small cross section of river life. We spent about an hour going through and enjoyed ourselves. It's just
fascinating to me and Deb came away really entertained as well.
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