Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's Louis the 14th's 'I love myself' palace! ;) (In all fairness, and I didn't know this, apparently he was almost killed by a mob when he was younger...so I guess things like that could affect you, but seriously, he has pictures/statues of himself ALL OVER THE PLACE!!)
So anyway, this is Versailles. Although it looks like Christoph hit the place, it's just reconstruction work going on....
This was my favorite part of Versailles - the chapel. This is the outside of it...
And here is the inside...it was just truly beautiful - it just seems 'clean' and 'pure' - I liked it a lot.
A view from upstairs...
Beautiful rooms....Versailles was definitely nicer on the inside than the outside...
There he is, as a Roman/Greek god or general or whatever....I don't know....again, I understand the trying to consolidate your land and making you the focus of everything, but still...it's just a bit odd.
Another beautiful room....
There he is again, looking 'great' on the wall...
and there it is!! The world-famous 'Hall of Mirrors'! This is where the Germans after 1871 declared Wilhelm their new Kaiser and where WWI was ended (treaty of)...
There is Ellen waving to the camera....
The gardens outside were just huge and as I've visited other castles from the same time period, almost all of them tried to copy Versailles in one way or another....Versailles was 'the Hammer' as they say in German ;)
Doing one of those 'look, I'm holding it in my hand' photos...
We decided this was Poseidon, but we don't know...
And another view of the back of Versailles...pretty-pretty....
