View from my hotel room, part 1.
View from my hotel room, part 2.
Rue Cler
Metro stop.
Riverside bookseller.
Iconic Notre Dame image.
River Seine
Samaritaine by day.
Pont Neuf.
Peeking out at the Louvre courtyard.
Louvre pyramid.
Louvre courtyard.
Louvre.
Tuileries hedge.
Flowers, Tuileries.
Under the trees, Tuileries.
Tuileries
Familiar landmark.
France is hosting the rugby world cup.
Park cleaning.
Grave of Sartre and de Beauvoir at Montparnasse Cemetery.
Montparnasse Cemetery.
Grave of Jean Seberg, Montparnasse Cemetery.
Grave of Charles Baudelaire, Montparnasse Cemetery.
Grave of Serge Gainsbourg, Montparnasse Cemetery.
In the Catacombs.
Bones in the Catacombs.
Secret exit of the Catacombs.
Welcome parents!
Another Metro stop.
Waiting for the subway.
Sainte-Chapelle stained glass.
Sainte-Chapelle interior.
At a sidewalk cafe outside Sainte Chapelle.
Napping on the tip of the Ile de Cite.
View from western tip of Ile de Cite.
Les Halles shopping mall.
Notre Dame, nice and clean.
Latin Quarter restaurant.
Metro stop Cluny-La Sorbonne.
Flowers, Jardin du Luxembourg.
Jardin du Luxembourg.
My safety's Harvard.
Sorbonne from outside.
Fancy vaulted ceiling in the Cluny.
Parc de Monceau
Obelisk at Place de la Concorde.
Looking westward up the Champs Elysees.
Back at the Louvre.
Night time.
Underneath.
I love the Metro!! (In case you couldn't tell.)
Inside, under the Louvre pyramid.
Louvre staircase.
Michaelangelo's Dying Slave.
You'll find this child on the dark side of the moon.
Tree in the garden at the Musee Eugene Delacroix.
Musee Eugene Delacroix.
Posing for a photo, Musee Eugene Delacroix.
Jardin du Palais Royal.
Dinner at Crepes-Show.
Bastille street.
Garden in the Marais.
Nice chair.
Church in the Marais.
Place des Vosges.
Marais cafe.
Mmm, chocolat.
Marais.
Pompidou, east side.
View from the Pompidou.
Pompidou.
Art at the Musee d'Art Moderne at the Pompidou.
Patisserie!!
Musee d'Orsay.
Ceiling at the Musee d'Orsay.
Art nouveau! (Musee d'Orsay)
My new bed!
Metro passageway.
Jardin du Ranelagh.
Bois de Boulogne.
Metro stop near Bois de Boulogne.
Happy. Must've had something tasty.
Back in Place des Vosges.
Place de la Concorde ferris wheel.
Waiting for the funicular, Montmartre.
Birds in the bush.
Sacre Coeur.
View from Sacre Coeur.
La Chat de Montmartre.
Montmartre.
Montmartre street.
Moulin Galette, Montmartre.
Dining, Montmartre.
Art nouveau Metro stop.
Riding on the Metro.
One of the passages, 19th century covered shopping malls.
Fancy passage floor.
I would look lovely in this, don't you think?
Another passage.
And another.
Corner of the facade of the Opera.
Flowers at the Madeleine.
Column at Place Vendome.
This is where I'll be staying next time.
Pompidou at night.
Along the river.
Latin Quarter at night.
Crowds for a famous painting.
Spanish painting in the Louvre.
Lunch in the Louvre cafeteria.
The Rubens room, the Louvre. (A little Rubens goes a long way, says I.)
Relaxing at the Louvre Starbucks.
Another Metro stop, Cite.
Notre Dame rose window.
Clerestory in Notre Dame.
Crowds in the plaza in front of Notre Dame.
Deportation Monument.
Shop display, Ile Saint Louis.
Ile Saint Louis riverside.
Ile Saint Louis.
Arc de Triomphe.
Looking eastward on Champs Elysees.
Cafe, Champs Elysees.
Metro stop, Trocadero.
Kilts!
and bagpipes!
Parade on the Champs Elysees.
Watching the parade.
Champs Elysees.
Last dinner in Paris.
Who's this guy?
Fondue!
Latin Quarter.
Samaritaine at night.
One more Metro stop, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Our hotel.
Our rental 'car'.
Giverny in the rain.
Giverny.
Half-timbered buildings in the town of Vernon.
Flowers, Vernon.
Vernon.
Carousel, Honfleur.
Honfleur.
Nice clouds, Honfleur.
Wooden church, Honfleur.
Dinner in Honfleur.
Mont Saint Michel! Finally made it!!!
Le Mont.
Out on the sand.
Mont Saint Michel.
Abbey, Mont Saint Michel.
Sand around Mont Saint Michel.
Looking south from the abbey, Mont Saint Michel.
Cloisters, Mont Saint Michel.
Camping by Mont Saint Michel.
Cemetery, Mont Saint Michel.
Tide's out, Mont Saint Michel.
Tide's coming in, Mont Saint Michel.
The river rising, Mont Saint Michel.
Morning, across from out hotel near Mont Saint Michel.
Breakfast.
Another friend.
St. Malo.
Beach at St. Malo.
Warning, a surfer might land on you.
Saltwater swimming pool, St. Malo.
Dinan.
Looking into the valley from Dinan.
Old ramparts, Dinan.
Down in the valley, Dinan.
Rooster!!
Market day, Dinan.
Pointe du Chevet, north coast of Brittany.
Pointe du Chevet.
Cap Frehel, also north coast of Brittany.
Cap Frehel.
Fort la Latte, near Cap Frehel.
Fort la Latte.
Pause for a break on the walk back from Fort la Latte.
Goats.
Very low tide at Erquy, north Brittany.
Erquy.
Le chat noir.
Village in Brittany.
Brittany countryside.
Cows.
I'm having a banana split.
City walls and garden, Vannes, southern Brittany.
Vannes.
Church in Locmariaquer, southern Brittany.
Locmariaquer.
Picnic on the beach, Locmariaquer, on the Golfe du Morbihan.
Another very low tide.
Near Locmariaquer, on the Atlantic coast of southern Brittany.
Near Locmariaquer.
Prehistoric rock alignments near Carnac
Carnac.
More rocks.
Coast near Quiberon, southern Brittany.
Near Quiberon.
Back in Vannes.
Medieval wash house, Vannes.
Picnic lunch on the road to Bordeaux.
Outside our last hotel of the trip, Bordeaux.
Bordeaux.
Cathedral, Bordeaux.
Bordeaux tram.
Last night of the trip, Bordeaux.