It was a coincidence we visited on September 1. Find out what is so special soon ~
Despite King Louis XV melted some of the silver and gold to pay debt, the palace is still grandious.
September 1, 1715, exactly 290 years ago, The Sun King (Le Roi Soleil) King Louis XIV died in this bedroom.
The apartments of the ladies, daughters of King Louis XIV.
Enjoying lunch - ham baguette sandwich outside the Palace of Versailles
I must admire the landscape architect's talent to build such beautiful gardens. How could anyone not feel relaxed here?
Noon time by the fountain of the garden. I couldn't spend more time in Versailles and so skipped the garden. It would take a day to walk around the whole Palace.
Surely we all would've loved to spend the rest of the day in Versailles, but we had a bigger plan. Given the good weather, we had to climb up L'Arc de Triomphe to get a 360-degree view of Paris, both day time and night time. We had no idea what awaited us ..... the sore feet...
300+ steps here!
See Montmartre (Sacré Coeur)
Apparently, this building is where the Nobel Prize winners Pierre and Marie Curie conducted the experiments.
The university is not gated and buildings are scattered. We walked into the gated area but couldn't locate the Cuvier building.
We approached a group of students to ask for directions. The students saw us and pushed a guy who seemed to be more fluent in English to talk to us. Heehee, my French is definitely good enough to ask for directions. So there would be no misunderstanding, we got to our destination pretty quickly.
We were to attend a reception and to listen to speeches with university students from all over Europe, Africa, Middle East. The multicultural feeling was overwhelming.
See La Tour Eiffel?! The white spot to the right is the moon. Now you know what kind of wonderful view I enjoyed!
So having super late dinner was alright. Actually, I didn't have dinner, I only had desserts afterwards. We went to a pastry place on Champs-Elysées and then sat on the patio, enjoyed a yummy chocolate mousse and a cocktail drink, plus the marvelous view of L'Arc de Triomphe at night.
Overall, that day, we climbed over 2000 steps (300 steps up & down at L'Arc de Triomphe, at the métro stations, at Versailles) I had to give my feet a warm bath and massage my feet to prepare for more walking the next day.
