Ben and I (well really just I, but Ben was nice enough to go with me) decided to take a day trip out to the Chateau Fontainbleu, which will now be referred to as FB. FB should be more famous than Versailles since more French royalty and monarchs have actually lived there, but it isn’t. FB has housed the French monarchs from the 12-19th centuries and all of the royals left their mark on the chateau and gardens.
When Ben and I arrived we grabbed a sandwich and fruit and headed to the gardens of FB for a picnic by the lake. We didn’t see a soul during our picnic. We were thinking “hmm this is odd…at Versailles you couldn’t walk 2 steps without seeing someone…” Then we walked around the FB gardens, still not seeing too many people. I was sure that it wasn’t closed because I checked online but Ben and I couldn’t find the entrance to the chateau so we were starting to get convinced it was closed. As it turns out, it was open-thank goodness-but just not that many people know about FB or just choose not to go. We were able to walk around the chateau at our leisure and weren’t being carried through the rooms by tourists speaking a hundred languages with Nikons and Canons glued to their faces.
Our lack of planning ahead skills came back to bite us on the way home and we waited on a bus for 30 minutes to get to the train station just to wait an hour for the train back to Paris. Overall it was a nice day trip to get out of the hustle bustle of the city, but I would only recommend it to someone who has already had their fill of Paris J
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