At Logan, waiting for plane
Arrival in Paris!
Charles De Gaul Airport
After getting scammed taking the metro into town.
Metro
View from our hotel room
View from Hotel Duo, in the Marais
Salvador Dali's bike
Hotel de Ville, Paris' City Hall.
Cheers, we're in Paris!
Cheers, we're drinking Belgian Beer!
First view of the Eiffel Tower!
Eiffel Tower
More Eiffel Tower
Conor and Eiffel Tower
Carey and Conor and Eiffel Tower
Even more Eiffel Tower
....
I mean, how do you go to Paris and not take dozens of pictures of the Eiffel Tower?
A little stylized
It's a lot bigger than you think it's going to be
Approach
Ironwork
Tall
This is a 6-part series going 180 degrees up from underneath the tower
Part 2
Part 3, aimed straight up
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Look how tall it is, Carey!
Keep looking, I'm taking a picture!
View from the second floor...still a long way to go!
View of Paris from 2nd floor
Paris and the Seine
Hopital d'invalides with La Defense (business district) in the background
Carey from the second floor
The view up is almost as good at the view out.
Look at the camera
Seine, Soccer, and off in the distance, the smaller Statue of Liberty (on the island)
Carey Scary Elevator
Top of the tower!
Elevator
Tower pics from the Champs de Mars
Eye-ful tower!
Comb your hair
Carey and Eiffel Tower
Conor and Carey and strange head growth
L'Obelisk (a gift to France from Egypt) with Eiffel Tower in background
Fountains
L'Arc De Triomphe at the end of the Champs-Elysee
L'Arc de Triomphe
Unlucky statue
Musee D'Orsay.....would have loved to have seen it except the workers were on strike because of the strain of having to tell people not to use flash photography. Sorry kids, park's closed!
Notre-Dame Cathedral
Notre-Dame Cathedral behind us
Jeanne D'Arc
Beautiful stained glass. Impossible to photograph. Huge, vibrant, and awe-inspiring.
Stained glass
Trying different ways to take the picture
Wish I'd remembered my tripod!
Inside the Cathedral de Notre-Dame
Mass at Notre-Dame Cathedral. Incense is universal
Outside Notre-Dame Cathedral
Outside Notre-Dame Cathedral - gargoyles
Rear buttresses of Notre-Dame Cathedral
The Seine
Carey looking French on the Seine
Great French wine with dinner on the Seine
Day 2! Montmartre area of Paris
Taking pictures of walls, doors and motorcyles
Where's Conor?
I told you about the doors.
Painters and artists.
A little touristy now, but this used to be the neighborhood of Picasso and Van Gogh, to name just two.
Painters and artists
View from Montmarte -- looking at Paris
Sacre Bleu! It's the Sacre Coeur
Sacre Coeur
Carey thinking about the shot she's going to take.
Carey's shot.
A bit of the church and the view
Some say the architecture is a little overdone
But it really does inspire awe
Conor and Carey, Paris in the back
Carey almost had it!
Streets of Montmartre
Au Lapin Agile, a hangout for Picasso.
Wall
Lots off windmills in Montmarte....on a hill, of course!
Cool building and door
Soccer phenom playing against a wall
Moulin Rouge! Oh La La!
Can you can can?
Check it out!
Musee de Rodin
The Thinker
Doesn't quite have it yet.
I think I can
You kind of have to do it
The Kiss
Rodin's gardens
Eiffel Tower at night.
Eiffel Tower at night with Carey
Eiffel Tower, get ready for lots more attempts at getting the picture.
Conor and Tower
Eiffel Tower at night
Elapsed Eiffel Tower at night
Conor and Carey with lit up tower
We're fading away! Quick, go back to the future and make sure we meet!
Sparkling Tower
...
Starts to look kind of creepy
Day 3 - At the Louvre
Got there early to avoid the crowds
Louvre
Not too many crowds
Still no crowds
Beautiful morning
The entrance.
Designed by I.M. Pei
We learned inside the museum the importance of the pyramid in paintings.....all makes sense now!
Reflecting pool
The line in the morning
Statue, Arch, Obelisk, Arc de Triomphe
Ignored artifacts
It belongs in a museum!
Venus de Milo
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Venus de Milo with crowds in front. My favorite photo of the trip
Mummy
Carey's got the headphones!
Locked in a staring contest
For eternity
Old artifacts
Pillars
Underneath the Pyramid. Familiar with the Da Vinci Code?
Aux Champs Elysee
Carey and L'Arc de Triomphe
Better shot
This is also much bigger than you think it is. Look at the people on the top.
Standing in the middle of traffic
Conor under L'Arc
Nice watch
Jour et Nuit, sous la pluit
A midi et a minuit.
Il y a tous que vous voulez
Door
Place de Vosges
A cool Stephane Grappelli/Django Rheinhardt band in the Place de Vosges
They sang and played for a while
And the fiddler, Aurore, is fantastic!
Streets
Le tricoleur
Cafe and chairs
More cool doors
Skinny Door
Blue Door
Monument to the Bastille
Thanks for the great trip!
