Sunday 26 December 2010

L'entrée du Trianon Palace

The entrance to Trianon Palace hotel. The Christmas market there ends today.
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Le marché de Noël s'y termine aujourd'hui.

25 comments:

Bob Crowe said...

Everything looks lovely. Even we got some more flurries today. Snow on the east coast may jeopardize our flight to NY tomorrow.

andrew1860 said...

The Trianon Palace!!! The place where Marie Antoinette could be herself. I love this place I don't remember seeing the many times I walked Versailles

Lowell said...

So lovely. The snow creates its own kind of magic!

At some point I hope to hear all about your day!

We're in south Florida so may not be online much for another day or so.

James said...

I like the wintery lighting! Merry Christmas!

Anonymous said...

The name is very fitting, it certainly looks like a palace. Nice car exiting the gates!

Rumor has it we might get 20 to 30cm of snow tomorrow :-)

I hope your Christmas was very merry!

Genie -- Paris and Beyond said...

What a beautiful Christmas card scene... hope that your day was very merry.

Bises,
G

Randy said...

Wow that is so beautiful and you still have snow. I'm jealous.

T. Becque said...

Everything is so fancy, the palace, the scroll of the trees, the car...and I like the lighting too.

Scott Law said...

I am pleased that you came and visited my blog so that I could come and see yours. My family and I were among those 7 million visitors to the palace at Versailles about 20 years ago. Very beautiful and I wish we had been able to spend much more time there - one of those quick tour things. Anyway, I look forward to visiting your blog often, and I hope to see you at mine.

Greenhorn said...

Lovely photo! It is SOOOO French! Merry Christmas!

Leif Hagen said...

Is that James Bond making a quick exit from the hotel?

Malyss said...

La neige et les lumières ensemble, c'est vraiment féérique.ici, les marchés durent jusqu'au 3 janvier.

Halcyon said...

I love the silvery-blue tint in this photo. Everything is so pretty!

Kaori said...

Looks like a scene inside a snowglobe :-)

Anonymous said...

Very nice photograph. I really like the visual stimulus it provides me.

cieldequimper said...

@ Andrew: this isn't the Trianon castle where Marie-Antoinette liked to stay, but the hotel located on the edge of the palace grounds. If you would like to see the Trianon castle, you might want to click either on the "Petit Trianon" or on the "Grand Trianon" labels at the bottom of the sidebar.

@ Leif: nope! A) it's a Porsche, wrong car and B) had it been James Bond, he would have been equipped to drive on snow and ice! :-)

brattcat said...

how i wish i could make it there in time for the last day of this beautiful market.

VP said...

Elegant and beautiful!

Jack said...

That is very classic and elegant, Ciel. As to Mark Twain, he lived in Hartford for 17 years, and later he lived in Redding, CT, from 1908 to his death in 1910. Redding is next door to Ridgefield, where you lived for a while!

Olivier said...

il en sort un beau carrosse ;o)) bon weekend de noel

Small City Scenes said...

Another beautiful Christmas card scene. Love it!! Nostalgic yet modern. MB

Bergson said...

je rêve le père noel en décapotable

Gunn said...

have you got a new company car from your boss this year?

Becky said...

You live in the most beautiful area. Wow. And what a fancy car exiting that place... :)

William Kendall said...

I wouldn't mind being in that snow right now!