A Day in the park (Versailles)

Time for another day trip. Part of the hostel lifestyle is of course, running with people on the same page. And of the places to in the area, a girl I met Annabel and I thought 'Versailles had got itself a pretty good rap'. Centre of political power, gilded apartments and 230 acres of gardens; as Billy Connolly said about the Albert Hall "Some size for a folk club?" So off we went.

If you want opulence, the palace of Versailles is the right place to come to. Pick your flavor, when Louis was asked which colour he liked in the Dullux catalog I think he must of said 'All of them', because each of  the rooms, the 300 or so not particularly special ones has its own colour, then set of particularly crafted furniture to match. That before where the money really went, like the ball[in!] room, 20 crystal chandeliers should do it.

I'd love to tell you more about the history, little anecdotes, and trivier. But honestly I didn't do the research for it.

So on we sauntered through the grounds, giving names to the abundant farm animals and particularly ugly fish that we passed. OK they were all called Louise, but it still became a joke of our adventure. The simple advice for anyone going to take a look, is get up early, there is a lot of grounds to cover, but no shortage of what to look at on your way.

OK this is the point where it should become blatantly obvious that we're both Australian. The raw excitement, both of us had realising that one of the water features we were looking at had frozen over. It's something special, it's unusual, it means winter is coming and cold is about to start operating on a different scale then we're used to. If you don't relate, it's just our version for "it's only 28 degrees".

My camera had been dead all day so Annabel had the photos. To say that Versailles was worth a few shots wasn't justice. 500 well that might take a while to go through.