Happy Bastille Day!
July 14th 2008 It's the Big Day here in France, and we decided to escape the craziness of Paris for the countryside and Versailles--apparently mirroring Louis XIV's actions about 300 years ago. We managed to negotiate the RER transit system and arrived at Versailles on a glorious blue-sky day--finally!
What can one say about Versailles? "Oppulence to the max," we kept saying about everything we saw, but eve
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