On 30 Dec 2013, at 09:01, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 29/12/2013, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 28 Dec 2013, at 22:57, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The weather looks like it was better there. Your house in one >>> piece/unsubmerged etc? >> >> No problems here. It was bloody miserable in Versailles until the afternoon >> of Christmas Day when it cheered up a bit, and they had a lot of flooding in >> Normandy and Brittany. >> >> Funnily enough, wandering around the gardens at Versailles reminded me of >> Beamish. > > I can't think of anything approaching a link, except maybe that they > are fairly complete representations of worlds gone by. >
It's the notion of having an entire landscape dedicated to the museum, and the walk from palace/village to palace/village. At Versailles instead of historic buses to move people around they have what I will always think of as chiquitrens, but I think they ought to be more imaginative, and use Sedan chairs. http://aranjuezonline.com/item/chiquitren-tren-turistico/ B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
