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| Front Gate |
Our first day trip was to Versailles. It is easy to get to Versailles by using the subway and taking the C train out of the city. After a short train trip you reach the train station and walk about three blocks to the gates of Versailles. We made sure that we would arrive before the crowds and arrived by 9:30 am. We then booked a tour of the Kings apartment and the Opera house. Tours can be booked online ahead of time but we were not sure about our arrival time.
The guided tour was excellent and I would recommend that you take a tour. The Opera house is amazing. It was designed so that the floor of the audience can be raised to one level and balls could be held in the same space.
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| Opera House |
Once the tour ended we went through the rooms open to the public. The Museum Pass covers the entrance fee to the Chateau De Versailles.
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| One of the many fountains. |
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| View of the gardens from Chateaux |
From the palace we entered the gardens which are free when the fountains are not working. If you go when the fountains are working you will need to pay extra to enter the gardens. It would be fantastic to see the fountains if they are anything like the fountains at Peterhof Palace in St. Petersburg Russia.
We made our way to the Grand Trianon Chateaux which is included in the Museum Pass and is a 30 minutes walk from the palace. This private retreat was built so that the King and Queen could escape from the court.
What a great day trip and an easy 30 minute trip back to Paris. The Chateaux is only 10 Km from Paris but when it was built it seemed much further travelling by horse and carriage.
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| Garden side of palace. |
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