From the Archives: Versailles

Less than ten photos. Could I really have only taken just a handful of photos on our day-trip to Versailles?! I die. Did my camera batteries die? (Actually come to think of it, I'm pretty sure that was the case. First rule of photography: always charge your batteries!)

This day held so many adventures! Thinking back, I would love to have taken photos of so many details along the way: the train depot; the train exterior and interior; the view of the city flying by out of the dingy train window; the lovely patisserie where we stopped for breakfast; the little shops we wandered through in town; more detail shots of the beautiful and opulent facade of the Chateau de Versailles; the gardens (though it was December and they were quite bleak); the charming cobblestone roads in town; lunch at McDonald's with the girls (fancy); waiting for the bus with Stephanie to travel to the toile museum in Jouy-en-Josas (a little town outside of Versailles); the bus ride (with local school children) through those beautiful winding country roads; the toile museum... (oh the toile!! Serious fabric and textile nerd here); waiting for the bus to return and realizing the last one of the day had already run (No. Even now I wouldn't have been taking pictures during that stressful part of our adventure); the lovely "bus-stop angel" (sweet french woman) who waited with us and flagged down another bus to take us back to Versailles; The relief of making it back to town and meeting back up with our traveling companions... just in time for last train back to Paris; seeing the Eiffel Tower sparkling in the distance on the train ride back to the city...

Likely, I would have hundreds of photos of that day had I owned my little Canon back then... Thank goodness for my memories!! Looks like I will just have to go and do it all over again. Perhaps I would skip the part where we were stranded at the bus-stop;)

L