Versailles

While in Paris, my sister and I also went to the palace of Versailles.


This is somewhere I've also wanted to visit but never got the chance to on previous trips to Paris. And because I'm an EU citizen under 16 I got to go in for free.


The hall of mirrors was particularly stunning. I really like overly decadent periods of history like pre-revolution France.

The only downside was that it was very crowded and we couldn't go into the gardens without paying €8 because there was some fountain show going on. We didn't bother but the gardens looked really beautiful from what little we saw.

Paris!!

Last week I went to Paris for a few days with my sister.

We mainly went for the Japan Expo and the Morning Musume concert that was being held there, but we also found time to take in a few of the typical sites. Such as;

Notre Dame! (Probably my favourite place in Paris - I love the all the little restaurants in the side streets around it)

The Eiffel Tower! (Which we could also see from our hotel window despite it being quite far from the centre of Paris)

And La Grande Arche de la Défense, an intriguing cube shaped building from which you get a good view of the city, in particular the Arc de Triomphe. I never even new that this building existed so it was quite fun exploring the futuristic area in which it is located.