They say that you can't see all of Versailles in one day. Absolutely true. The place is a monument to excess. The line just to get in is huge -on a busy day, about an hour of standing on a cobblestoned plain. Crowd control is poor, amenities nonexistent. No benches, no shade, no vendors, no toilets. And precious few inside,either. The building is magnificent, but my feeling is: if you've seen three huge halls and one huge chapel, you've seen them all.
Though I admit that the gate attendant was surprised when I left before trying to slog all the way through.
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Sometimes the glow does go off the rose early. You need to pick a cold and rainy day, perhaps?
Nah, just a touch of Disney customer handling...
When I went to Versailles, I spent the entire time in the gardens. Odd, I know, but I'd seen so many large gilt-encrusted rooms at that point...
Oh, btw the Vatican handles its crowd-control very well. Which can't always be said in Italy.
I'd prefer a decent, quiet garden to any number of hugely ornate rooms, I think.
It never even occured to me that the Vatican would have to be conversant with crowd control.
"Transgressors will be Excommunicated"....hmmm....
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