As you can see by the pictures we went to the palace of Versailles today and it was very cool. The Palace alone is huge and has enough that even without the gardens you would get your money’s worth by just viewing the palace. But we went around both the palace and gardens (Even though it was very windy and slightly drizzling). First was the palace, we saw the king’s and queen’s apartments which included some large silver furniture (they didn’t let us take pictures) that were spectacular. Next was Louis the XIV’s bedroom which had a surprisingly small bed, then some guard rooms and then the Queen’s bedroom which was beautifully decorated and slightly larger than Louis’. We saw the heir’s apartments which weren’t as good as the king and queen’s, and also the chapel which the royal family used. After a lot of walking we sat down for some lunch. The next place to go was the gardens and Marie Antoinette’s domain. The gardens might have been better if it were sunny (it was raining) but it felt too long of a walk for me. Once we were at the Marie Antoinette apartments we felt better because we were out of the rain but the apartments were very interesting, like the miniature chapel that had a door so you could put it away for parties, or the huge 18th century pool table made of marble. Overall this place was good, but not interesting as the main palace.
After our visit we hopped back on the RER line C and headed for Paris.
-A
