Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Paris: Versailles

Home to the last great Kings and Queens of France - walking around this place which is about 40 miles outside of Paris helps you understand why the last ones lost their heads. The place is absolutely huge - like, three times the size of the finance center at Fort Benjamin Harrison - crazy. And that's just the main building.

Took a short train out there one afternoon and walked around. We skipped going inside, since we knew that future visitors would want to do that. They are also cleaning the outside similar to what they are doing for Notre Dame, so half of it is clean and white - while the other half is under scaffolding. Oh well, it was still impressive.