holy macaroon

After three days in Paris we picked up Louis and with him, our ticket out of it. Louis is a seven-seater Citron C8 and our ride for most of the next three weeks. I still do a double take when someone drives past and I see the person in the drivers side reading a book or looking in the back seat until I remember it's a left-hand drive car.


From Paris we headed to Versailles and to the palace. It was the Royal hunting lodge at the time but Louis the 14th had grander plans and over many decades, transformed it into what it is today. It's stunning from the outside but the artwork is exquisite. I won't even attempt to describe it so here are some pictures.

It takes a good few hours to walk through the whole place, so much so that by the end of it we were a little over walking. After lunch, which included my first macaroon in France (oh Jude it was amazing!), we ventured into the gardens. The gardens cover more than 800 acres. We spent a little time walking around before deciding to walk to Marie-Antoinette's apartment. However, by the time we got there we had walked so far we couldn't really be bothered going in so we turned around and walked back.

Our final destination today was Fontenay-le-comte, about 400km away. Half way through we learnt how to use Charlie (our sat-nav), which made the trip a bit quicker, however we still didn't arrive until close to 9pm.