Palace of Versailles

Today is was our last full day in France. We attended a bike tour excursion in Versailles. The tour revolved around, taking a bike ride around the palace grounds with a guided tour who explained the history of the different statues, grounds and building designs around the property of King Louis the XIV.
I didn't have any historical knowledge on the palace of Versailles so it was nice to get some education.
We also explored the private compound of Marie Antoinette, who was King Louis the XVI's wife who also stayed on the property. They filmed the Marie Antoinette movie on this property as well. So there was some old movie props. Her compound consisted of various cottages that she would provide to her overnight guests.
Our guide was a British so his English was very good and he had some humorous one liners, which made the tour stay interesting. We had lunch on the property by the grand Canal, which took King Louis the 14th's soldiers 11 years to trench out before they could put water in it (fun fact).
After the bike tour, our excursion purchase got us access to the Premier line to enter the palace, so we got to bypass the long line of individuals who bought their ticket that day. we only had about 45 minutes to explore the palace because we needed to get back into town however everything we saw looked pretty amazing. The palace is a 700,000 square foot compound and it has a luxurious garden which is quite spectacular. These Kings had quite the compound.

They also had an Angelina's on the property which is a pretty popular Paris pastry shop known for its hot chocolate. But of course when we ordered it, the machine was down. It was a pretty warm day so hot chocolate probably wasn't the best thing to drink anyway.

For the evening, we went back into Paris to get to a few shops before they closed and ended with dinner at a pizza spot that was pretty good.Read more