This is me and about a half million other visitors at Versailles, which as you all know was the home of Louis XIV and his ill-fated descendants. It's stunningly large, stunningly decorated, and stunningly crowded. It was also snowing. You take a short train ride to the town, then walk past a throng of incongruous Africans selling postcards and wooden carvings, then you're in the giant courtyard pictured, which is really just filled with people lining up and tour buses disgorging more people into the queue. And once inside, it's bumper to bumper. I'd have to say it's the most crowded tourist spot in Paris, beating even the Louvre. Surprisingly, Sainte Chapelle, my favorite church in Paris that seems to be made entirely of stained glass, was the only place where I was defeated by the crowds. We went by each day since it's close to our hotel, but no luck, there was always too daunting of a line.