Today we started off
expecting to do some shopping but as it is Sunday in Paris most shops are
closed.
When we got up our watches said 7am but our phones said 8am.
We worked out that Europe has gone to daylight
saving so we have an extra hour of daylight for the rest of our trip.
Parisians are out and
about on another beautiful sunny day. We haven’t seen a cloud since we arrived
in Paris.
At 11:30am we headed off for the Palace of Versailles. We
decided to take a taxi and 40 euros later we were at the front door ie. a massive wrought iron fence with gold
trimmings.
The line in was about 250mtrs long and took us about ½ hour
to get through security.
How do we explain Versailles...too hard - after you go
through the palace and gardens you can understand why the French peasants chopped
off all the heads of the French aristocracy.
Brutal, but the amount of money spent to build this place would have
been phenomenal. Inside we looked through all the rooms of the Palace, again
quite amazing. There are some 1500 fireplaces in the palace. The rooms are
typical French 17th century decor.
We then went to the gardens surrounding the Palace where we
had lunch. We will leave the explanation
to the photos – massive and incredible! We keep using the word massive and that
is an understatement for a lot of places here. We stood on a large hilltop and could
not see the end of the garden. It is that massive.
After 5 hours of walking around ...about half the garden, we
caught the train back to Paris. The train system is excellent in here. We hit
our unit and the first beer, wine and soft drink went down well. Once again we
ate dinner in as we are all worn out for today.
We off to Euro Disney tomorrow.
Bonne nuit (good night).
French decor
Can you see the end of the garden ?.... we couldn't
Look what a cloudless day does....
