Versailles

Versailles, at the risk of sounding like a tourist pamphlet, is truly one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. The excesses of the builidings and interiors are somehow balanced by the sheer vastness and tranquility of the gardens, the two worlds combining to create a most lovely place to pass a day. Here are some photos of ours.
The Apollo Fountain, quiet for the winter, yet an opportunity to see the sculpture unobscured by the water gushing from it in high season.

Nanny Gigi wheeling a sleepy Sophie among the gardens.

Lunch in the gardens at a restaurant that was once the stables for Marie Antoinette.

Brian and Sophie in the Hall of Mirrors.

After touring the palace, one can go outside and, I kid you not, RENT A GOLFCART to toodle around the gardens in! When Brian and I were here last, I thought it was a joke, but no. You can really rent a "skippy" as Brian refers to them, and good thing, as those gardens are big, and it allowed us to see much more of it than if we had just been on foot. Here is Gigi and Grandpa Fred with - is that a big marshmallow? Oh, no, that's my daughter! In their skippy outside the Petit Trianon.

Of course the race is on at 31/2 miles an hour - catch up, ol' timers!

H & B self portrait a la skippy.

Sunset shot at the Grand Canal. This was our last day in (and near) Paris, what a calming way to round out the most wonderful of vacances, what a beautiful day.

Au revior, Paris, et merci.