Versailles: Le Sigh
I am going to tell it like it is folks. If you ever come here, do not, I repeat DO NOT go in the palace. It just isn't worth it boo. We waited in line for 45 minutes to go on the worst Disney ride EVER!! So many people, so little deodorant. It for real felt like being in line waiting for a ride that never happens. Imagine being on It's a Small World but with no clear exit, you have to walk it, everyone in front of you randomly stops to take pictures and you can't get around them. What is its saving grace you ask? The restaurant inside, once you get a table, serves reasonably priced wine, and it has kick-ass gardens. Oh man are those gardens worth it! Full disclosure, we got in for free with the museum pass.
That didn't stop us being told we still had to by tickets to go in, and then having to go back in that line to get a refund because while waiting almost an hour to go in, we found out our passes did cover our entry and we didn't need tickets. We had taken the train all the way from Paris, so of course we (I'll own it, primarily me) felt we needed to wait in that line. Now please don't misunderstand, the house is epic. It's ginormous, covered in gold, crystal, expensive lacquer, has high ceilings, and royalty lived there. My gripe is more centered around when and how said royalty lived there. The rooms that did have furniture from the time of Kings was sparse. Most of the rooms were empty or housed tiny replicas and projectors to show animated versions of what is was like. There were too many people there paying an entrance fee for that level of non-sense. Put some dang stuff in there!! I know you can afford it. In my mind there is no reason for those rooms to be either empty or minimally full. That house is huge with a gazillion rooms, why did only a dozen at best have stuff in them!??!
I need to calm down, drink some wine and move on to the most amazing part of Versailles.
The gardens, are le Beautiful!! We grabbed a bottle of wine and got our stroll on. The small perfectly manicured gardens are intricately separated and simultaneously decorated by gravel paths. There are grand staircases to take you any direction you choose. The flowers are all in bloom, there is classical music playing, and if you so choose you can wander thru a labyrinth of hedges. In them you can find a pond with a water show, more fountains and even a open air rotunda with a several smaller water basins within the circle of pillars. The grounds continue west with a great canal that has row boats for rent. You bet your sweet butt I wanted to row a boat on a canal built for royalty while drinking wine. Frank is a very good spirited person and after wearing him down, he finally agreed. I even rowed the first part, and have blisters to prove it.
This is the entrance to the main part of the house. Just take some pictures of the outside and scoot your booty to the garden. It is the Flash Gordon of the area.
What you do see - The coolest things in the palace, notice they are hanging from the ceiling. what you do not see - the 100 people milling around below the coolest things.
When they lie about the oysters being fresh.
Lots of people but with lots of space. The rows of hedges you can wander through are to the right and the left in the background.
Does your lawn not always look like this?? Cause my lawn might as well be this lawns twin. Wait....I don't have a lawn.....
Pinky up cause I am classy af
Dudes!! This was someones house. It started out as a "hunting lodge".
See, I told you I rowed :)
