This visit to Versailles was to the gardens only to see Les Grandes Eaux Musicales - baroque musique interpreted by French musician Christophe Rousset accompanying the water display of the fountains - and the metal sculptures installed by Bernar Venet - a French sculptor whose curved works contrast with the geometrical symmetry of the Versailles gardens and groves. Exquisite! We love our annual visits to Versailles and we always find something new to enjoy. I don't know why but I always feel a little sad as we leave...hopefully we'll be back next year.
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Hi Sally & Brent, The 'photos are just lovely. I really like the curved metal sculptures, especially the rich colour contrasting with the colours of the gardens, as you say 'exquisite'. L&G
Hi Sally and Brent
More gardens! What’s going on?? Every minute wasted in some over-the-top shrub and flower-covered monstrosity is a minute that could have been usefully spent in a second hand record shop. While you are looking at some gilded Copper Art inspired statue of a bloke sitting on a step like he is just about to join the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras street march Brent could be looking at a first pressing of Combat Rock signed by Joe Strummer - the rare release with a pair of his underpants as a free give-away insert. Maybe you are both taking notes so you can pass the audition to appear on the next series of Backyard Blitz? I must admit I do like the metal sculpture. From the side it looks as if a dinosaur lumbered into the garden, died and all that’s left are the ribs. Another photo makes it look like a mechanical ball that has rolled out of control through the flower lawn and left ripped up tracks behind it. However, I do hope that common sense will soon reassert itself and your precious time in Paris will not be frittered away mooning around in old gardens like characters in some Jane Austin novel and your next blog post will see a figure, fingers all a-blur, hunched over a milk crate full of vinyl like a henna over a rotting carcase.
Love Paul, Fiona and Ruby
Hi Sally and Brent
Just a quick follow up on the garden issue after reading an article in today’s Age. The whole French garden matter is all clear now. In an interview, Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife Carla Bruni explains why she fell in love with him – “I was really impressed…walking around the garden in the Palais of the Elysse, he was giving me all these details about tulips and roses and I said to myself: ’My God, I must marry this man. He’s the President and he knows everything about flowers as well. This is incredible.’”
So there you have it, the Paris gardens are just another way for the French to oil the wheels of love. Obviously you two have started to become locals and are just automatically falling into step. Now if only someone opened a second hand record shop IN a garden…
Love Paul, Fiona and Ruby
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