A quiet day today. No riding. Just lots of walking in the rain at Potsdam. I had a look at Sans Souci. The gardens are free but one has to pay extra for entrance to the palace. I'm not sure about the "modest" description of Freddie's summer palace. It still looked rather sumptuous to me. He loved cherries apparantly, and was prepared to pay the modern equivalent of 100 euros for a single cherry. The decor was bright, interesting, lots of roccoco and chinois. I hired a little radio thing with earphones to learn more about the palace. Unfortunately as is often the case with these things there was a tendency not to get to the point in descriptions of life and construction of the palace but more a desire to present the story of Freddie, his royal entourage and the palace in a somewhat fawning and cutesy manner. I kept skipping through the commentary and noticed that most other visitors were doing the same.
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