Our Honeymoon en France ~Day5~

Left hotel at noon & we're going to Versailles by train. There's a direct train from Gare St Lazare so it's very convenient. But the problem was the signages made it quite confusing & we nearly took the wrong train.

Château de Versailles, or the Castle of Versailles, is located in the suburb... Southwest of Paris. Took about half an hour by train to reach the town of Versailles. The château is just within walking distance.

Felt the coldness once stepped outta train station & very soon, it started drizzling accompanied with very strong wind. When we saw the dark cloudy sky ahead, were a lil hesitant but decided to go ahead since we're already there. Glad we didn't make a U-turn.

While wandering in the château, we couldn't help but to think how such a massive piece of land with very impressive buildings was developed & looked like with the kings & queens living in more than 300 years ago. It could also house 20,000 courtiers at a time! Believe it!? It just made us feel so small... as if the boundaries were limitless. Ended our tour there when we're near to freezing, so cold that we couldn't walk normally. To think that at the end of our visit, we only covered less than 5% of the total land size which is about 815 hectares in total !

From Versailles, we took the train to Montmartre, back to the city of Paris. Visited another remarkable monument at the top of Montmartre hill - Basilique du Sacré-Coeur. There's this charming lil village behind the church, with many restaurants/bistros/pubs & painters.. a very arty place...

Walked down the Montmartre hill & the sloping lanes to reach the Montmartre area on ground. As usual, we intended to walk back to the hotel & took a stroll on the main road. There're many sex shops & peep-show bars on both sides, only then we knew it's a red light district. And before we even realised it, we're in front of Moulin Rouge! Had been wanting to go there to take a look in one of the evenings but we're always too tired to make a special trip there. So we're really happy to 'bump' into it! It's 7pm then & the sun's still shining brightly... so there's no way we could wait till night time to take some night scenes.

On the way back, went to the supermarket to get mineral water & some snacks. Reached our hotel around 9pm & ended our 3rd day in Paris.