Chateaux Versaille

As you may have noticed, Paris took us 3 days, not our planned 2. So we are spending another night in the campground so we can go visit Chateaux Versaille. The Chateaux is only 2 km from the campsite so we decided to walk it. My knee is still as sore (if not worse) as before. Usually a 2km walk would take us 30 – 45 minutes, this time it took us 1 ½ hours, again attesting to how tired we are (and how sore I am). When we walked along the main street leading up to the castle we saw numerous places to park our van, thus making our walk shorter, but since we were already 1 km into the walk we decided to just leave the van and get this over and done with. The chateaux itself is rather unimpressive from the exterior. Where its glamour lies is in the interior state rooms, where the rooms are lavishly decorated to the point of absurdity. The gardens are supposed to be very impressive as well, though they cost extra to visit so we skipped them. When we were in the famous “Room of Mirrors” I was half way through the giant hall before realizing it was the room of mirrors. It was not what I expected. Like everything in Paris (and Versaille) the place was crowded with tourists which made it hard to enjoy properly and at times impossible to take a photo. Chateaux Versaille cost us 27 euros to get in and it was hardly worth the fee.