We had a slightly lazy morning before heading off to the Palace of Versailles, to take advantage of it being free on the first Sunday of the Month. The walk up to Versailles was amazing, with the gold-leaf gates and the view of the palace. We were all amazed by the inside as well, though Jonathan complained about the amount of Paintings.
The thing I found most amazing about Versailles was how much everything inside it must have cost. There were so many different paintings and things with gold lea on them! While only about halfway through the palace we all started commenting on how we all had massive sensory overloads. I was also really amazed by the ceiling paintings in each of the rooms and got a sore neck from looking at them all.
After going through Versailles the general consensus was that it was very show-offy and arrogant and ‘look at what we’ve got’. Not to say that we didn’t like it at all, it was just very big and expensive-looking.
We then wandered through the gardens for a bit and looked at how grand they were. Dad said that he could easily see why the French Revolution occurred, looking at the palace and the gardens and how expensive they would be, and we all agreed with him. We saw some swans waking along a frozen pond/fountain and looked at the leafless trees wondering how amazing this would be in Summer time.
Posted at 8:17pm London Time
That's exactly what we thought, that we could see why there was a revolution.
ReplyDeleteI was originally going to try and answer the Paris posts in French, but then realised that would be quite laborious :)
I have seen summer-time pics, and there is such a difference, but both are just as beautiful in their own way.
Oh yes, we have been in QLD for NCYC for the past week or so, so that is the reason for the lack of replies, except for my "YES!!!!!!!!!..." in reply to your HP7 post, which was because we found an internet cafe in the shops at QLD.
ReplyDeleteNCYC and the two days at the theme parks were great, but so much happened, so I'll go into detail later on.