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It is a very wet day today so we head out late after an early lunch. Our destination is the Palais De Versailles. The trip requires three train changes and one and half hours in time. It takes a little extra time for us since we hopped quickly on to one train waiting at the station hoping for the best. This never pays and we were heading the wrong way! The problem is easily fixed though. The Metro is brilliant in Paris. Above ground it’s never far to a Gare (station), not complicated to find your way at all, and below ground it must be a web of lines. Added to this we have never waited more than 3 minutes for a train.

Well, the Palais de Versailles is ‘tres tres grande’! It is still raining however, we don’t mind as the grounds are breathtaking. Sculptured gardens stretch literally, as far as the eye can see! There are long avenues, lakes, monuments and flower beds. To picture the size of these grounds we figure that the building and grounds would stretch conservatively, from Oxley beach in the east to Short St in the west, Clarence St north to Koala St South, for all the Port Macquarieites!

French royalty sure knew how to live well, just not long! The boys intended to take some Paris night shots tonight but it’s way too wet!