After 2 days wandering around the neighborhood, yesterday we took the metro, a bus and a train out to Versailles. The weather was postcard pretty, with huge fluffy white clouds and deep blue skies.
There were a lot of individual tourists but the hordes of tours were unbelievable! They would all try to squeeze into a small space at once to hear their tour guide. So the trick is to stay in front or behind them. But they didn't seem to find what I wanted to see very interesting.
The Hall of Mirrors opened last month after more than 3 years of renovations, and it is absolutely spectacular. The mirrors, paintings, floors, everyting was cleaned and repaired.
Then we walked most of the length of the gardens, to arrive at the Grand Trianon, thus completing the "formal" part of the tour. We then saws Marie Antoinette's favorite places: the Petit Trianon, the Temple of Love, and her Hameau and farm.
We went from incredibly opulent and ornate, to a "simple" farm. It's a romantic and idealized version of a farm.
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