Our trip to Versailles today was an exercise in patience: the crowds, the standing in line in chilly weather, the uncertainty if we would even be admitted. The cheerful persistence of our guide made the day a success . Without her and her wonderful store of knowledge, this day could have been a zero. Three cheers for Cerise .
Versailles was a different experience for me the second time around, just as the Louvre was a lot different. I call it the Selfie Stick Phenomenon (even though they weren’t allowed there). People ( some people)today were more interested in recording the day’s experience for Instagram. (I am sometimes guilty of that too).
The crowds are overwhelming . It was difficult to appreciate the Hall of Mirrors with several hundred people in it .Though, in all likelihood, this may have been how the nobility of the 1700s experienced it. I wonder what it looked like by real candlelight.
One has only to watch a period movie to be aghast at how long it took the king and queen to get dressed every day . I dashed into the bookstore at the end of our tour to buy a book about Marie Antoinette. I have would loved to have seen her private chambers back then .Not so much to have waited on her!t
It was a a good visit once we made it inside .