Mark and Ben lurk suspiciously under |
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Ben poses, quite effectively, in the Room of Peace at one end of the Hall of Mirrors |
Mark poses a bit less successfully by the window of Louis XVI's private study |
Ben wishes it to be known that wearing shorts, sandals and a t-shirt was a mistake - it was freezing |
A miniscule french woman sheltered by the Incarnation of Air makes a good set piece |
The chariot of the Sun God rises from the Basin of Apollo at the end of the Great Lawn - the guide books are often rather rude about Versailles, but I think it has Gloire in great quantities... |
The Seine guards the Water Parterre underneath the Chateau's garden front.
Ben feels like a pawn in the Cour de Marbre
Ben comments: The thing which most struck me about Versailles was the scale and sheer theatricality of it all. It is a testament to the skills of |
The belvedere, somewhere in the grounds of the Trianon, one of the king's private palaces (and itself the size of a decent royal residence anywhere else in Europe) - it was raining every other minute... |
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Diana hunts as the storm gathers... |
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