Just touched down. Waiting for the tube to Central London
View from the hotel room
Dreary, wet London weather
Grand entrance to a shopping centre
Wet, Wet, Wet, Streets of London
Hyde Park
Fountain in Hyde Park
Taking a break from the rain
Statue of Edward Jenner, creator of the smallpox vaccine
Walking in the rain. A lot of people were jogging or walking their dogs in 10 deg C weather!
Queen Victoria. Kensington Palace is in the background
Kensington Palace. Official residence of Kings and Queens before Buckingham Palace was built. Princess Diana's official residence
Portobello Road. George Orwell's house
Portobello Market
Self-cleaning fully automatic toilet
Trafalgar Square
Monument to Admiral Nelson
National Gallery at Trafalgar Square. Free Entry!
Night at the Theatre at the West End
Tube Station at Notting Hill
Bewildered at my fascination with train stations
Incoming!
Empty Streets during the weekend
St. Paul's Cathedral
Peta Protest
Tate Modern Museum of Art in the distance
On the Millenium Bridge
View of the Thames River
Thames River. London Bridge in the distance
Duck! Yum!
More Duck
Learning to Waltz
Inside Kensington Palace
Jack the Ripper Trail walk
Wellington Arch. At the other end from Buckingham Palace
Going to watch the changing of the guard
Main Gates of Buckingham Palace
At the Royal Mews
The Queen's official car
Breakfast at Paul. The Delifrance of Europe
Tower of London
Our Beefeater guide
Home of the Crown Jewels
Climbing the tower
By the way, this is NOT the London bridge. This is the Tower of London Bridge. The actual London Bridge is further down the river!
THAT is the London Bridge
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Eurostar to Paris
Really fast!
Bienvenue en France!
Notre Dame Cathedral over the River Seine
Lost in Translation
Notre Dame de Paris
Charlemagne
Inside the Gothic Cathedral
St. Joan of Arc
Lunch at Chez Clement, Paris
Creme Brulee. Yum!
Chocolate ice cream in a chocolate cup
Pantheon
Wasn't taken by me!
Roof of Gallerie Lafayette
9pm and still bright!
Le Grand Opera House
Famous Heads
Cold Pigeons
Pose
Chilly one-legged pigeon
Inside the opera house. Pity the main hall was closed for rehearsals
Arc de Triumph
Windy!
Up the long winding stairs
Very tiring climb up
You are here!
Catching breath
1836!
View from the top
Sacred Heart Basilica in the distant hill
City Center
Eiffel Tower!
Peugeot Showroom
Master chef of yummy desserts!
Yum!
Stuffing our faces with sweet things
THE Louis Vitton in Paris
Champs Elysees Avenue. Paris's Orchard Road
Lovey dovey pigeons
Fairytale duck!
Cruise on the River Seine
Old Paris train station
I thought it was a lot bigger than that.....
Cruise and drive package
Perfect sky
Lying by the river
Room with a view
Grand Palace
Expensive last French dinner @ Chez Dumonet
Hot pigeon (with reference to Cold pigeon)
Absoluely clueless about ordering in French
It's 10pm!
The chef on the right
Grand Marnier Souffle
Baked apple slices. Yum!
Cutting Ceremony
Artist's Square
Basilique du Sacre Coeur
Excellent Paris skyline
Another tiring climb up
Eiffel Tower in the distance
Going down again
Arc de Triumph in the distance
Relaxing in the park
Not your usual marble statue
The Lourve
The Small One
Lourve!
Venus de Milo
Pan
You shouldn't be sitting on that!!!
St. Vincent de Paul
Wedding at Canna
THE one and only Mona Lisa
The Crowning of Napoleon('s wife)
Don't jump!
French Elegance (which kind of explains why the Revolution happened)
Under the pyramid
Back at the Pantheon. This time we're going in!
Knock Knock. Who's there?
Inside the Pantheon.
Foucault's Pendulum. The first proof of the rotation of the earth
Memorial to St Joan
The tomb of Marie and Pierre Curie and other French Heroes in the Pantheon Crypt
Warm feet
Streets were closed due to a protest
