Hotel Royal in Montpellier, France We loved this hotel!
Place de la Comédie, the heart of the city, Montpellier
Park in Montpellier
Rue Maguelone, the Hotel Royal is just up the street
Australians who bought out extra ticket for 100 euro less than an hour before the match
Deux biere s'il vous plait!
La Mosson stadium in Montpellier
Australia vs. Fiji
Australia vs. Fiji...Australia won
After the match.
After the match
After the match. We got out quick and enjoyed this view with a beer in the park...
...the we enjoyed a few more beers with celebrating Australia fans on a sunny afternoon
Austraila team leaving
Tramway back to town
The celebration continued well into the night
View from our room at the Hotel Royal
Hotel Tonic du Louvre
The room was small. Tate was standing with the door open to take this picture.
2 less than twin beds pushed together
The light in our bathroom was broken the first night. Tate riged this us to take a shower
The room seemed much bigger when we opened the huge windows
Nicolas wine shop near out hotel
Kathy with her Rick Steves Paris book. It went everywhere with us! We loved that book.
Sunset our first night in Paris
The Seine in the morning
Chateau de Verailles
Hercules Drawing Room
The King's wing
Hall of Mirrors. 17 Arched mirrors match 17 windows reflecting te gardens
Hall of Mirrors.
King's Beadroom
Peace Room
The Queens Bedchamber. 2 Queens died here and 19 princes were boor here. Royal babies were delivered in public to prove the bloodline.
Marie-Antoinette tried to escape out this door when revolutionaries stormed the palace on October 5, 1789...
She and the King were later captured here in the Queel's Gruard room.
The Gardens
The Orangerie - garden of orange trees that were taken inside to the greenhouse when the weather was too cold (most of the time)
The Grand Canal - built to resemple Venice, Versaille visiters could ride gondolas doen the one mile canal
Long walk to the Queens Domaine
Pitete Trianon - Marie-Antoniette made this her home base
Marie-Antoniette
The Hamlet - Marie-Antoniette buile the 12 building village as a working dairy farm
it looks like something you would see at Disneyland!
The Hamlet
Long walk back to the palace
The palace from the gardens
Hotel De Ville - Paris City Hall This movie size screeh showed all the Rugby World Cup games live
Hotel De Ville
Pyramid at the Louvre
The Louvre
Arc Du Carrousel
Venus de Milo
Heads of Caesars
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Victory of Samothrace
Crown Jewels
Cimabu - The Madonnaa of the Angels
Giotto - St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata
The Grand Gallery
da Vinci John the Baptist
Raphael - La Bella Jardiniere Madona, Child, and John the Baptist
The crowed at the Mona Lisa
de Vinci - Mona Lisa
Paolo Veronese - The Marriage at Cana This painting faces the Mona List
Jacques-Louis David - The Coronation of Napoleon Napoleon crowns his wife, Josephine
Michelango - Slaves
Orsay Museum Manet - Luncheon on the Grass
Whistler's Mother
Renoir - Dance at the Moulin de la Galette A Sunday afternoon in Montmarte. My favorite painting.
Moulin de la Galette in Montmarte where Renoir sat to create the materpiece. There are only 2 windmills (moulins) left in Montmarte, the other one is the Moulin Rouge. Galette means small crepe.
van Gogh
Pompidu Center - Museam of Modern Art The building is inside out with the pipes, heating ducts, and escalator on the outside
View from the top of the Pompidu Center
Eiffle Tower
Eiffle Tower. It got so cold that day, I had to buy a hat and scarf which I wore the rest of the trip...
...I bought them at Zara up the street from our hotel!
Rugby ball suspended in the middle of the Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower the night we went up
View from the top of the Eiffel Tower
Kathy and Tate at the top of the Eiffel Tower
Notre-Dame
28 Kings of Judah
Mary in the Rose Window
St. Dennis holding his head. It's said that after he was beheaded by the Romans, he picked up his head an walked to find a sutiable resting place
Christ weighing soles at the end of the world
Rose Window
The alter
View from the top of Notre-Dame
Spire of the back
Gargoyle
Gargoyles
Bell inside the tower
Door to the bell tower
Back of Notre-Dame
Side View of
Arc de Triomphe
View from the top of the Arc de Triomphe
England v Tonga in Paris
Kathy bundeled up and enjoying an Amstel-Free
Tate bundeled up and enjoying an Amstel-Free
Trench seperating the fans from the pitch
Sacre-Coeur Balilica
Outside the Sacre-Coeur Balilica
View from outside the Sacre-Coeur Balilica
Tim Hotel
Picasso's Studio next to the Tim Hotel
