Fontainebleau
October 2nd 2011
Published: January 27th 2012
Published: January 27th 2012
With a past as about as aristocratic as you could find, Fontainebleau with its world heritage palace and park, was a great place to visit the week following Paris' heritage days. Another example of the riches accumulated and held by France's elite of the past, the palace and its grounds are something else. Following the heritage days the weekend before and a visit to the Louvre the previous day I don't think I have ever seen such wealth, both materially and culturally speaking over such a short period of time. Mind boggling...
1. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. - Mark Twain
2. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine
3. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. - Robert Louis Stevenson
4. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson
5. All the pathos and irony of leaving onefs youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise trav... full info
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