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Our plan for Tuesday, July 31st was clear - a visit of the Versailles chateau, the most prestigious monument of the world's architecture and artistic heritage and certainly the finest and most complete achievement of 17th century French art.
We had breakfast in our hotel, took the RER train 'C', yellow line, from the Invalides station to the Versailles-Rive Gauche station and at about 9:30 a.m. we already stood before the main gate of the chateau. Then we take advantage of our Museum Passes, passed by a long line of waiting for tickets people and entered the chateau. We could see the Chateau where the State Apartments are located (rooms of Kings and Queens) and the King's quarters.
And again ... it was amazing, fantastic ! Yes, we have a lot of beautiful castles and chateaus in our country but the Versailles Chateau is different for its monumentality and luxury. Everything there says to you that you are going through the place where the richest French kings lived. Incredible huge spaces ! And so decorated and painted ceilings and walls ! So many pictures and sculptures and historical furnitures ... It was really worth to see it, you believe.
Then we continued our visit exploring wonderful chateau gardens with a lot and a lot of flowers, cut bushes, hedge labyrinths, fountains and water canals. Many and many acres of gardens ... we walked along one path that led us to a smaller chateau called Grand Trianon that formerly served as a tea break place for kings and their courts. It was a neat place again with a lot of pictures on its walls, furnitures and sculptures.

Tired but happy we left Versailles at 3 p.m. and came back to Paris by the RER again.

Then we had lunch-dinner in a small restaurant in the La Tour Maubourg boulevard, took the metro lines 8 and 1 to Champs Elysees and walked down this hugest and busiest Parisian boulevard with a lot of shops and stores of the most famous trademarks. But our legs were already pretty sore and the boulevard was so crowded, so after about one hour we found a metro station and came back to our hotel to have a shower, some glasses of wine and to read a book a bit. Of course ... my book for Parisian stay was The Da Vinci Code ...