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Feel free to browse them and leave comments! But, if you just want to see the best of, I've copied about 97 of them to this post, most of them of me. :-D
We got started bright and early and took a tram from where we parked (the Petite Trianon) to the main Palace of Versaille.
My commentary doesn't do this place justice.
Just a little corner... with random magnificent statue..
We used a self-guided audio tour.
The Chapel from above.
*every* *single* *ceiling* was *painted* *like this!*
The entrance to the Hall of Mirrors!
Me, in a mirror!
You know, I try to do a noble thing like make sure every moment of my trip is documented by pictures of me and -- it gets mocked. :-P
The weird exhibit they had going on with gigantic metal balloon things... kinda took away the grandeur of it all.
Just another marble staircase. Don't we all have one?
The Chapel from below.
I'm still trying to convince Emma we need one of these in our room... :-D
It was raining outside, so some of my pictures have drops on the lens. :-D
I told you the exhibit was weird.
The courtyard (well, the whole palace for that matter) was HUGE!
The nerve.
Yummy lunch!
*LOVED* how this room was decorated!
We could have spent till midnight wandering around the gardens, but it was raining.
The back of the house. (*gasp*) I couldn't get it all in one shot!
We all have bad hair days, right?
The wind made sure I didn't get a decent picture. :-D
I told you most of the pictures here are of me...
Raindrops on my shoulders... is that a song?
We decided to walk from Versailles back to the Trianons because it was (no joke) $15 a person for the 2 mile ride.
See the line in the horizon? We walked from THAT. PLUS, because the gardens are a maze, we had to do it *twice*. And this is just from the bend in the road. It was probably another 1/2 mile from there! :-D It was so fun in the rain though!
We only had a few minutes to dash through the Petite Trianon, but I'm glad we did.
Noseless!
You know, if that orange was more of a tangerine than a creamsicle, it could be revolting... but I like the combo of peach stripes and leopard carpet! :-D
More mirrors.
I could stand to have something like this as my bedroom... even though the "matchy matchy"ness of it is awful...
I *loved* the sumptuous tassels and cords and trims, though!
Think they had enough? :-P
Then we walked to Marie Antoinette's Palace just down the street
The first window on the left is the window to her bathroom. :-P
THE biggest pool table I have *ever* seen!
We then pranced over to her Hamlet... This was my absolute favorite! It was *so* picturesque and quaint and neat and tidy yet not and lucious and oh!
You couldn't go inside any of these buildings, they're just for show, but I loved walking around them in a drizzle!
The perfect princess tower! I would probably have 1000 pictures of this place if my battery wouldn't have been extremely low from taking pictures of the Palace all day!
Ohh... maybe the song lyric is "Raindrops on roses" :-D
I would garden if it turned out like that!
So earthy!
*sigh*
(to prove I was there, ya know?)
I could hardly believe I was seeing it!
Isn't it the cutest thing?!
But alas, the park was closing and we had to go. :-(
(There was a view of this out Marie's window, remember?)
My favorite self-portrait of the hundreds taken during the whole trip. The sun glowed just long enough on my face for me to get it before the battery went completely dead!
Driving down into the parking garage.
We were too hungery to go searching for a resaurant, so we stopped at the bakery just as it was closing. Another delightful evening after a wonderful day!
Trying Flan.
Wow, only 3 more posts left to go! Hope you've enjoyed this installement, and don't forget to look at the album!
4 comments:
I have been reading this "Euro" blog. This one is the best. That Versailles place is pretty awesome. I wonder how it compares to the Forbidden City in China? Maybe when I turn 16 I'll get to go to China, oh wait that already happened guess I wasn't a fortunate as you! ;)
Oh, another thing. In case you were testing it out, your camera's face detection works splendidly.
yum, flan...there's actually a hispanic version of it too...i should kno, my mom's from nicaragua, lol...we all love that stuff!
~alissandra
UR SOOOOO LUCKY!!!!! I'm NEVER going to get to go there :-(((((
Emma needs convincing to get a chandelier in your room? Wow.
I can see why you said the Hamlet was your favorite destination. It's rustic charm and beauty draw the fortunate spectator into a lovely little world beside a lake. It looks like a scene from one of Tolstoy's novels.
That hall in Marie's palace is dearly loved my me. Fascinating.
How I wish you could have seen the sculptures and statues in the gardens! And the ornate floral arrangements.
That chapel has and forever will be my favorite room in the palace. I remember when I first saw a picture of it four years ago, I said, "I want to get married there!" HA! Really now? Big dreamer over here...
I don't have a marble staircase, do you?
As far as your "mocked" act of nobility... I couted them and you posted exactly 225 noble acts on this blog from Europe. That is enough to account for all the nobles of the French Court!
Oh the hall! Radiant beams of gilded light! Thou hast tread on revered ground. What humbling pillars and delicate paintings
And the pictures from the Hall of Battles are powerful! (in the folder)
How can you not be shocked at the queens bedroom? Now that is overkill. The chandelier is pulchritudinous though. As is the one in the magnificent yellow tassled room.
700 rooms, all that will blow you away. No wonder it took 64 years to build. 6,000 paintings; 17,100 sculpturs and engravings; 67 staircases; and 15,000 square meters of floor space!
The Trianon is nearly equally as nice as the palace! What a trip, from the simplicity of wooden Dutch shoes to the quintessence of opulance. From piercing the sky on Gustav Eiffel's spear to wallowing in the dregs with a polished pig. You went full circle girl!
Thank you very much for putting these pictures in a folder for browsing. You know I've combed through them many a time now.
That is a nice self-portrait but not my favorite though.
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