Versailles

Today we took the train to Versailles. The whole process of getting there and into the palace could be summarized as . . . confusing. Not to toot my own horn (prepare for it to be tooted!), but I have done a pretty good job on the metros and dealing with changing lines and getting us to wherever we needed to be. That being said, we initially got on the wrong train. It was the correct line in the correct direction, but that particular line has about 5 different end stops. This was further complicated because I had to catch the C line train from the B platform and the front of the trains doesn't have the destination on them. It simply said something like, "Jane."




When we got to Versailles, we had to snake our way around a building to buy tickets (and then struggled to find an exit), and after all that had to stand in a much longer line just to enter the grounds. It was all very disorganized. And since it is a major tourist destination, we had to deal with crowds of people. Many of them were children, and they posed a major obstacle to our progress as they would take up an entire room. We resorted to tossing them out of the way. Interestingly enough, the two pictures that I posted don't really show the hordes of people, but I can assure you they were there.




We walked around the gardens for a bit, but they are under restoration now, so that combined with all the fountains being off didn't really make for any good photo ops. Instead, I offer you this picture of a movie poster for "Very Bad Trip 3" aka "The Hangover 3" aka "Don't see this movie, it is the worst thing I've seen since The Thin Red Line. You're welcome. I just saved you a very bad trip. We are now recovering from all the walking by eating French cookies in the room. There shall be another update later this evening.

Location:Rue du Conservatoire,Paris,France