A few miles south of Paris, the Parc de Sceaux is a gorgeous French garden designed in the 17th century by Andre Le Notre, who also designed the gardens at Versailles and Fontainbleu. While the chateau is now a museum since 1930s, the beautiful, sprawling garden is free to the public, and is much less touristy than its more famous cousins. The grounds at Sceaux include a number of individual gardens and fountains, and of course a grand canal. We will definitely be frequenting this place throughout the summer with Oliver to get some fresh air and escape the polluted (though beautiful!) streets of Paris. For being a 25 minute drive from our apartment without traffic, it's really amazing how away from it all you feel there. But the real reason for our visit to Sceaux this week was to see the orchard of cherry trees in blossom. Like many visitors to the Washington, DC tidal basin, it's really a crap shoot as to whether or not you will time the visit to coincide with "peak" blossoms. I've been stalking the Instagram feed for the Parc for the past few weeks, and felt that we were close enough to give it a go on Tuesday. We were not quite at peak, but we were not at all disappointed either! The orchard lived up to all of my pink blossom dreams :)
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