Today marks our final day in Paris - our train leaves back to London late this afternoon. We are making a lazier start to the day and will be having a little wander around Montmatre as the sole aim. We will also likely pay a visit to the Sacre Coeur while there.
Yesterday was also a later start - we left just after 10 and wandered down to the Place du Trocadero and across to the Eiffel Tower. The views from here were unsurprisingly fantastic - you could see quite a way! The structure itself is immense. Following a stroll through the CHamps de Mars to l'Ecole Militarie, we caught the RER out to Versailles.
Versailles is a place I have never been before. The palace is huge, and the gardens even more so. The original grounds covered a greater area than modern metropolitan Paris. The rooms were ornate and sumptuously decorated - the long Hall of Mirrors was particularly fine.
The evening - after the return trip to Paris - featured a boat trip along the Seine. This gave us an opportunity to see all of the sites lit up, although as you were at water level some were harder to see than others. It was definately the superior option to see it by night however.
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