Chateau de Versailles (just the garden) in 4.5 hours
Posted by nana on May 6 2007
I had to go to Paris on friday because I had to collect my Australian student visa. I was planning to take a train there but Dad decided to drive me there.
It was a long long long drive from Antwerp to Paris. Estimated time was 3.5 hours, but the traffic was horrible and we took around 4hr+ instead…….my bored feet and the car window… 
Lol…
After collecting the visa, we drove to Versailles, where we visited the Chateau de Versailles.
From Wikipedia:
“The Château de Versailles, or Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles, France. In English it is often referred to as the Palace of Versailles. When the château was built, Versailles was a country village, but it is now a suburb of Paris. From 1682, when King Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in 1789, the Court of Versailles was the center of power in Ancien Régime France.
In 1660, Louis XIV, who was approaching majority and the assumption of full royal powers from the advisors who had governed France during his minority, was casting about for a site near Paris but away from the tumults and diseases of the crowded city. He had grown up in the disorders of the civil war between rival factions of aristocrats called the Fronde and wanted a site where he could organize and completely control a government of France by absolute personal rule. He settled on the royal hunting lodge at Versailles, and over the following decades had it expanded into the largest palace in the world. Versailles is famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy which Louis XIV espoused.”
Click here for the Official Chateau de Versailles website.
We spent around 4.5 hours there. We didn’t manage to visit the Palace itself nor the galleries and museums. All we did was walk around the gigantonormous garden. It’s friggin hugeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!
A pic of me in front of a pic of the Chateau (the garden is in the background of the pic in the pic).
Alright from here onwards, the pics are from the garden…………..enjoy! 
There were HEAPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSS of tourists!!!!! And primary and secondary school kids having day trips! 
Woah my dad’s so cool… stylomilo dude
Look at the sparrow!!!!! Hehe….
This is my favourite statue in the whole garden… the stone its made out of looks like marble…. it’s in excellent condition (maybe its been whats the word……er….repaired..no.. oh restored!!!)
Close up….
Cross-eyed pa…lol
Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me want!!!!!!
While I was having tea with dad, little sparrows kept coming up beside me to eat this chunk of french bread….cutieeeeeesss!!!
Having a lunch of french bread with pate, milk and water with a very nice view of the garden…
A piece of art………….
or a drinking vessel??
Muahaha!! I am taller than the trees…
Photo count for the day: 663
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