With more than 67 staircases, 700 rooms, 1250 fireplaces, 2,000 windows and more than 1,800 acres of grounds, this is the awesome royal Château de Versailles outside Paris, France.

I visited Versailles about 15 years ago (eek!) and it truly is unbelievable how ridiculously, stupidly, horribly extravagant the whole thing is. I mean, just look at the size of the grounds, I have to go to zoom level 3 to fit them all in!

As always, loads more information about this ostentatious sight is available at Wikipedia, the official site is nice, there’s a good photo gallery here, and if you’re really interested, here’s an interactive map

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This is the tiny Scottish island of Little Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde, near Glasgow. It has a jetty, two cottages, three vacant houses, a lighthouse complex and a twelve bedroom baronial mansion… and it’s currently for sale.

The price? A cool 3 million pounds.

There’s more info about Wee Cumbrae over at Wikipedia.

There’s a big ol’ cruise ship docked here in Ocho Rios Bay, Jamaica. Ocho Rios is one of the major tourist towns in Jamaica, and Jonathan reckons that the ship is either the Carnival Victory or Triumph. You can certainly spot the distinctive coloured ‘fin’ towards the boat’s stern, and is that a pool I can see on deck?

So what if this is in the Caribbean? I’m not jealous of James being there if that’s what you think…

Thanks to Carson Diltz and Jonathan