Paris 2017 – Day 2 – Hillfamily dot net

Versailles Bike Tour
Highly recommended! We met at the tour office in Paris and took the train together to Versailles. We picked up bikes and spent an hour at a market to eat crepes and buy picnic supplies for later. Our guide was fun and informative and it was a nice, relaxing day, despite getting left behind at one point. Book at Fat Tire Tours.

Versailles Hall of Mirrors

Versailles – Marie Antoinette peasant village pond

Versailles bike tour – Versailles Cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Versailles

Temple of Love – Versailles

Fish market – Versailles

Versailles – Marie Antoinette peasant village – bridge and carp

Versailles gardens

Versailles – Marie Antoinette peasant village

Fat Tire Bike Tour office

One of many crepes – Versailles

Versailles Chapel

Versailles

Paris Temple
If you’re Mormon, or interested in Mormons, there’s a new temple near Versailles. It’s about a 20-minute walk from the Versailles palace (5 minutes by car) in Le Chesnay. The public open house is from April 22 – May 13, 2017, which was after our trip. But we went ahead and joined the line for VIP tours, despite being of only average importance. It’s a beautiful place, inside and out.

Paris Temple courtyard

Stained glass in visitors center of Paris Temple

Paris Temple

Paris Temple – Sainteté au Seigneur – La Maison du Seigneur

Paris LDS Temple

Paris Temple

Christus statue at Paris Temple – with Nathan Broadhead

Paris Temple courtyard

Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Élysées
This is another good evening area after everything else is closed. We climbed the Arc de Triomphe and then walked down the Champs-Élysées boulevard to Place de la Concorde, where the guillotines used to do their thing.