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.

Fish market – Versailles

Versailles – Marie Antoinette peasant village pond

Versailles

One of many crepes – Versailles

Fat Tire Bike Tour office

Versailles – Marie Antoinette peasant village

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

Versailles Hall of Mirrors

Versailles gardens

Versailles – Marie Antoinette peasant village – bridge and carp

Temple of Love – Versailles

Versailles Chapel

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 – Sainteté au Seigneur – La Maison du Seigneur

Paris LDS Temple

Paris Temple

Christus statue at Paris Temple – with Nathan Broadhead

Paris Temple courtyard

Paris Temple courtyard

Stained glass in visitors center of Paris Temple

Paris Temple

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.

Staircase – Arc de Triomphe

Staircase to Arc de Triomphe

The Unknown Soldier At The Base Of The Arc De Triomphe

Ferris Wheel and Obelisk – Place de la Concorde

Eiffel Tower sentry lights – viewed from Arc de Triomphe

How dare you!

Arc de Triomphe