Besides the famous Treaty of Versailles, I really don't know much about it. Versailles is a 30-40minute RER ride from Paris. It costs about 2€, but in our case if you forget to buy a ticket prior to getting on the train, hope that a nice cute girl is running the gates on the other end and lets you and your group of 5 friends pass for free. Mark has just arrived to France and will be traveling with me for about 2 months. He was nice enough to bring me Canon 70-300mm zoom lens. So hopefully I will be able to have some good close up pictures from here on out. I was also able to meet up with the Canadians from Nice, minus Sacha who wussed out and went back to Canada.
There is a fee to get into the palace of Versailles, but the gardens are free. I was told ahead of time that the palace was not worth it. We did just that and went straight to the gardens. It was massive and the land was wide open. There was so much space and the gardens were beautifully designed. The only down side was that the fountains were not on when we went.
There is a long stretch of water towards end of the garden. This lake has row boats for rental and we were able to rent two boats with 3 people in each. The row boats were fun, but it showed just how bad our form was as we were zig zagging across the water. Its much more about technique than strength. We played bumper boats and even ran into a hissing swan. He was not happy with us and hissed at us repeatedly.
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