Chateau de Versailles

Our second last day in France and we visited Versailles. Before you even get to the palace, you get a sense of the scale and grandure of the place with all of the buildings outlying the palace. They were clearly part of the complex when the Bourbon were in power. Then you notice the gold leaf on the roof of the palace as you approach. You realise this is something to be seen. Toni pre-booked a tour which is a definite must to avoid the queues but more importantly get the context and history of this place. It is immense and the decadence is offensive. No wonder the people in the end took comfort with the guillotine. Just building this place let alone it's upkeep would bankrupt a state and this was just their holiday house! The scale of the gardens was impressive but it wasn't as beautiful as I had been led to believe.Baca lagi