Fauchon - famous bakery on Place de Madeleine
Madeleine monument
Galeries Lafayette department store
Mary at Chanel -Galeries Lafayette department store
Paris - Galerie Lafayette Department Store
Mary in on the roof of the Galerie Lafayette dept store - Opera in the background
Mary atop Galeries Lafayette department store in front of the Opera House
Dee on top of Galeries Lafayette department store - Opera House and Eiffel Tower in the background
View from atop Galeries Lafayette department store. Pompidou Center in the background
More views from Galeries Lafayette department store
View from Galeries Lafayette department store
Sacre' Coeur from Galeries Lafayette department store
View from my hotel room
From my hotel room
Outside my hotel room window
Hotel de Ville aka City Hall
Ben and Jerry's with a crepe stand
Rental bikes - These are all over Paris to rent by the hour. This rack is in front of my hotel.
Rental bikes, again
My hotel at night "Little Palace Hotel"
Mariage Tea Room
A store window in the Latin Quarter
Laudere'e tea room in the Latin Quarter
Ladure'e
Mary at Laudere'e for tea
Mary's friend Annika at Ladure'e
The little green men "walk" signals look they have some attitude - but that could just be me. See, the "don't walk" guy has his hands on his hips, like "don't even THINK about walking, jerk"
"Don't walk" light with attitude
"Don't walk" w/ attitude. This is at the corner by Mary's dorm/foyer.
The outside of Mary's dorm/foyer
The lounge in Mary's dorm/foyer
Mary in the kitchen of her dorm
Mary in her dorm/foyer kitchen
This isn't a good one. Some of the "don't cross" little red men look like they have their hands on their hips.
Around the corner from Mary's campus
Umbrellas in the window of the fun store around the corner from Mariage Tea Room
More fun stuff in the store window around the corner from Mariage Tea Room
Pompidou Center
Where Mary and her pals eat lunch most days - right across the street from the Pompidou. Perfect Paris cuisine - good and cheap. Three of us ate for under 10 euros.
In front of the Pompidou Center
The front of the Pompidou Center
Another view of the front of the Pompidou
Inside the Pompidou - the cafe (cheap and free wi fi, so it is pretty busy.)
Looking up the steps to Sacre' Coeur
bottom of the steps to Sacre' Coeur
Mary and Annika almost to the furnicular
Sacre' Coeur
From the top of the furnicular
more Sacre' Coeur
Statue Mime at Sacre' Coeur
View of the city from Sacre' Coeur at around 6:00PM
even more Sacre' Coeur
Mary and Annika in front of Sacre' Coeur
Sacre' Coeur and the moon
Just around the corner from Sacre' Coeur
The bell tower of Sacre' Coeur
The artist's area around Sucre' Coeur
Artists' area around Sacre' Coeur
Graffiti
The Windmill restaurant halfway down the hill between Sacre' Coeur and Moulin Rouge
Restaurant where the movie Amelie was filmed
Self-explanatory
Obvioulsy, the Moulin Rouge
The street where Mary's campus is - That is the National Archives at the far end of the street
The door to Mary's campus
CEA campus
Jardin de Les Halles
Jardin de Les Halles - The white roof in the mid-ground is the underground mall
Jardin de Les Halles - Where the famous market used to be. They tore it down and replaced it with an underground mall and park.
Jardin de Les Halles - free WiFi spot
Jardin de Les Halles - the building in the background is the hotel where John and I will stay when we visit Mary in March
Cool monument to I don't know what
Fountain next to the Pompidou - dry for the winter
Typical Parisian street
Fountain next to the Pompidou
We were walking by a middle school during lunch break. I thought about taking video to capture the noise level, but didn't want to get arrested for being a stalker.
This is how they move furniture in and out of upper floors. Many of these buildings don't have elevators.
Typical Parisian doorway to someone's home or office. They aren't usually left open.
A peek into the courtyard
Place de Vendome - where all of the famous fashion houses are
Place de Vendome
