The Ryndex

The story of my Greece vacation actually starts eight months earlier, when I arrived in France. I don’t think I need to repeat how incredible the experience has been (please refer to every other log I’ve written), but there’s been a constant low-grade anxiety and tension. It was especially obvious during the first days when I was trying to figure out how to eat and get around, and it came back in full force just before my dive vacation in the south.

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The Goldstroms and I spent the Sunday at Versailles. This is one of the most incredible monuments left by the monarchy, conceived by Louis the fourteenth to surpass all the chateaux belonging to the nobility. It was originally a hunting lodge built by his father, and Louis XIV had the foremost architects, gardeners artists and engineers build it into a palace worthy to be the new home of the Sun King and the centre of France’s court life.

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