Versailles Palace and Musical Gardens

We left the countryside and the Loire Valley and `drove towards Paris. We walked up to the golden gates outside of Versailles Palace and waited in a long line to buy tickets. We picked up some Audio guides and walked through the state apartments of the Kings and Queens before the French Revolution. Every ceiling was painted with little angels and scenes of Greek gods. The most magnificent ceiling was that of the chapel on side of the Palace. All the apartments were decorated with marble, tapestries, statues and painting in big golden frames. The King’s bed chamber was entirely decorated in red and gold and he slept in a massive bed. We saw the room where Marie-Antoinette tried to escape before she was taken to Paris to be Guillotined with Louie XVI in the French Revolution. One of the greatest rooms was the Hall of Mirrors full of large chandeliers and a great view of the huge garden in front of the palace.


We drove to a suburb on the Seine River 30 km out of Paris.

The next day we were back again, this time to explore the hundreds of acres of the estate and musical gardens (that weren’t playing music that day). We parked along the road, packed a picnic lunch and enjoyed it by the grand canal with a view of the palace. We wandered towards the palace past almost always nude white Greek sculptures. From the palace we could see perfect flower beds, groves of trees, the grand canal and a water fountain fit for a King, even when it wasn’t going. We walked out to Marie-Antoinette’s Estate then back along the grand canal. We stopped and sat by the canal soaking up the warm sunshine and watching people rowing on the canal before taking the camper back to our spot on the river Seine for the night discussing how we were going to see Paris the next day.