May 13, 2025 Versailles

 I wish I had more to tell you about this day but I don’t…..

Like I said yesterday, we are about an hour drive from Versailles so we take off just before lunch and drive there. It’s beautiful countryside is filled with fields of durum wheat. I looked it up and found that France is the second highest exporter of durum wheat next to Canada who is number one. Interesting? I’ve learned a lot on this little trip of ours.

We arrive in Versailles to find all those people that we have not seen for the last couple of days. I wondered where they all went. 😝 .Again, there are hordes of them. Since we were just at a magnificent palace yesterday we decide that it’s just not worth the hustle and bustle and wait to go see another one. Not to justify our decision, but when I had researched it, I found that people had asked if they had to choose one palace to view between Fontainebleau and Versailles it would be Fontainebleau so there you go.I have already been in Versailles back in 2012 so I’m certainly OK with not going. 









Instead, we find a cute little restaurant and share a charcuterie board and have a couple of drinks. I have snapped my usual pictures of the exterior and that’s all we’re gonna get done today.



We drive back to our little apartment in Vert-le-Grand and walk around the little village. There aren’t a lot of stores, but I’m thinking it must be a bedroom community to Paris as we’re only about an hour away from there. It’s definitely been a very nice quiet spot to wind down the last month or so of continuous sightseeing.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it but all through Europe the sound of birds is continuous, and it is so very nice to hear.


Here is the durum wheat that I spoke about.


Finally, I get to walk through another graveyard. I kept hoping that I might see a familiar name, but I didn’t.
And here is the war memorial and Vert-le-Grand Legrand.

And the typical church you see in EVERY village you come to. 


Good way to finish your day

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