April 25
Actually, according to the audio guide on the Big Bus, Marie Antoinette never said, “let them eat cake” but it’s a good story. Anyway, today we took the train to the town of Versailles (about 30 minutes from Paris) to visit the Palace. As we saw at Fontainebleau, most of the rooms were over the top. At least what we could see. As you’ll see from the pictures, the place was crazy crowded. Luckily Lynn’s leg cooperated (at least until the end of the day) because it would have been virtually impossible to get around in a wheelchair. We saw a few people in them and felt bad because they couldn’t see a thing.
After touring the house, we spent a couple of hours walking in the garden and on the rest of the grounds. We took a rowboat ride in the lake and then walked over to Marie Antoinette’s house. We didn’t go in as Peter couldn’t find his ticket and we didn’t want to pay again. By this time, we were getting tired anyway and we had a very long walk back off the property and then to train. Ride on the lake.
On our way to the train, we stopped at the carriage house that had a handful of carriages from the early 19th century.
Once back in Paris, we had dinner and then strolled the streets. Just by luck we ended up walking on what seemed like the 5th Avenue of Paris. We passed a ton of high-end stores and fancy hotels including the Ritz Carlton. We ended up back in the Tuileries Garden then at the Place du Concord. We took the Metro back home from there. It was a tiring day (over 24000 steps on Lynn’s Fitbit) but fun.
Tomorrow is our last day in Paris, and we plan to visit Invalides as we never made it yesterday. We plan to make it an earlier day as we have another load of laundry to do before packing. Talk with you tomorrow.