Versiallis, Paris March 18, 2010
Posted by tiffany in : Paris , trackbackToday we went to the Chateau Versiallis. My expectation was that the Chateau would be about the size of the castles we saw in Scotland, and I was dead wrong!
It is very large with an equally large amount of gardens behind it. We ended up not paying the 12 euro each to go into the castle and, instead, we took a three hour walk around the gardens (without seeing even half the gardens). Unfortunately the water features are not on at this time of year and the majority of the sculptures are covered in the winter time. Also there
was a lot of construction going on in the gardens, but it was nice all the same.
There was a reflection pond ( I call it a lake) with ducks (Mallards) and swans. The males were all being territorial towards each other which was particularly fun to watch. We grabbed a bag of chips and picked a
spot to watch them (we ended up feeding them). By the end of it we had three swans begging for the chips and an empty bag.
You could rent boats, golf carts, or ride a trolley through Versiallis’s gardens. All of which are pretty expensive for two people. We watched a lot of young people play around on the boats ( the song “rock the boat” comes to mind). There were no boats tipping over, just many close calls and shoats from the youths.
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