l'anniversaire à Paris..... Versailles

On Saturday we braved the crowds and took a trip out to Versailles. The palace of Louis XIV (there are so many Louis' its hard to keep track)and subsequent French royalty was HUGE!!!! and there was lots of gold everywhere!!! here we were very lucky to skip the queues as the line for tickets was massive, haha!!! the state apartments were beautifully furnished with old furnitaure and loads of beautiful paintings and sculptures, all very lavish. unfortunatly all the information was in french so we missed out a wee bit on understaning quite what was what. The best bit was the famous Hall of Mirrors which was a long light room with more gold and elaboratly framed mirrors along the interior wall so so it was all shiny and reflective. (not a very good description wait for the photos!!!)

The gardens however needed no translation. Again HUGE, and all set out in a formal style but on a very massive scale. To walk to the end of the Grand Canal would have taken an hour!!! and there was parkland beyond that!!! we decided to take a rowing boat out on the Canal for an hour which was fantastic fun, neither of us is particularly good at rowing but Jeremy is much better than me!!! It was a really lovely was to see the gardens and a beautiful view looking back at the palace

We walked further to the Grand Trianon which is part of the same grounds but really another palace where the royalty could come to get away from the court!! This was where Marie Antoinette spent a lot of time. More stunning interiours, each room had a different colour scheme!!! There were two sets of bridal parties having their photos taken on the porch and the gardens!!!

We left when it closed after relaxig in the sunshine in the gardens some more. (thats right sunshine, we had super weather!!!)

We came back into town and had dinner at a cafe on the corner of the street by our hotel, jeremy had an 'original saussage' which was a bit weird and an undefinable meat!!!

stay tuned
love G + J