Versailles

Fat Tire Bike Tour

Another early morning with a trip planned to Versailles so we began by taking the Metro to meet our tour group, there were fourteen of us in total.  After we were given our bikes we went to the market in the town of Versailles to buy lunch and then we were off to bike the vast grounds.  We stopped for lunch beside the Grand Canal and then it was off to see Marie Antoinette's recreation of a 'commoners village' where she spent most of her time with her friends.

Our bike tour guide was a bit too intense about giving all the history of the revolution etc, it was pretty hot to stand and list to so after six hours we were ready to go exploring on our own.  

The Hall of Mirrors

The view of the grounds - who wouldn't want that for their backyard?  If the fountains were on we would have been tempted to jump in, it was 30 degrees Celsius and it felt even hotter.