Day 39: versailles

  Wowza. This place is beautiful. Firstly I'd like to thank Paris for putting on another beautiful sunny day for us. But the palace is grand. The roofs are so detailed and in every room too! The whole time i was there i felt i should have been wearing a corset and a puff dress. But alas I was in jeans and hiking boots. The gardens are something else. They are 3.8 km long. I got lost in them and I loved it. There are lakes, fountains, statues, trees everywhere. The French style gardens are different. They have more stones than grass and not sure if it's just cos it's winter but there are no flowers. Also the fountains were not in use because the lakes were ices over! True fact. Hannah tried to break it with her foot but no success. The funniest site was the seagulls standing on the ice- Jesus style... (insert chuckle here). Having said all that the gardens were absolutely beautiful in a different way. I loved walking around snapping away.  We were very pushed for time in the end and had to speedy walk/ run to make it back to the hostel, collect bags and back to the station to get our train to lyon. We made it and here we are now. I am finally up to date- thanks 5 hour train ride! Oh our dinner should get a spesh mention cos we took our left over big bowl of pasta, pulled it out in the carriage, added some more sauce then all dug in and gobbled it on the train. The rest of our booth were jealous I could tell. Then we pulled out a half kilo tub of cus cus and repeated the process...