Monday in St Malo, Bretagne
Saint Malo Fort National
Breakwater of logs
City wall
Low tide
Derek and the fort
Derek on the rocks
Tidepool waterfall
Graham
Heading for the wall-walk
Entering the town of Saint Malo
Looking across to wall on other side of St. Malo
Admiring the shoreline, with tide fed swimming pool
Derek inspired by Jacques Cartier
Low tide in St Malo harbour with catamaran ferry in background
Heroes logo?
Outdoor lunch at Lion d'or
Plaque honouring Jacques Cartier benediction before leaving to (re)discover Canada
St Malo church
St Malo church from the outside
Derek inspired by Robert Surcouf
Colourful window. Note the Citroëns!
St Malo church tower
Saint Malo
Dinard harbour
Fountain in Dinard
View of La Défense, looking up Boulevard Circulaire
La Grande Arche de la Défense
View from la Défense to Arc de Triomphe
View from Jardin des Tuileries to Arc du Carrousel and Louvre
Colonne d'Austerlitz, Place Vendome
Napoléan Bonaparte
Napoléan Bonaparte atop Colonne d'Austerlitz
Opéra de Paris Garnier
Pyramide Napoléon, Louvre
Arc du Carrousel
Pont des Arts and le palais de l'Institut de France
Pont des Arts
Notre Dame cathedral
King Tut street artist
Great Canadian Pub!
Le palais de l'Institut de France (also known as Collège Mazarin)
Musée d'Orsay
Musée d'Orsay entrance
National Assembly
Fontaine des Mers, Place de la Concorde
Fontaine des Fleuves and Obelisk of Luxor
Champs-Élysées looking toward Arc de Triomphe
Grand Palais
Champs-Élysées and Arc de Triomphe
Citroen building on Champs-Élysées
Arc de Triomphe
Eiffel Tower from near Jardins du Trocedero
Eiffel Tower, decorated for Rugby World Cup, from Palais de Chaillot, Trocadero
Église du Dôme, Les Invalides
Les Invalides
Grand Palais, from across the Seine
Peace statue at National Assembly
Colbert outside National Assembly
Sphinx outside National Assembly
Emmanuel Fremiet - Jeune éléphant pris au piège 1877-78, outside Musée d'Orsay
Central gallery of Musée d'Orsay
Vincent van Gogh - Self Portrait 1889
Vincent van Gogh - Bell Lilies in a Copper Vase, circa 1886-87
Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night over the Rhone 1888
Claude Monet - Le bassin aux nymphéas (Harmonie verte) 1899
Claude Monet - Nymphéas bleus (Blue Water Lilies), circa 1916-19
Pierre Auguste Renoir - Bal du Moulin de la Galette 1876
Edgar Degas - At the Stock Exchange, circa 1878-79
James McNeill Whistler - Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother (Whistler's Mother) 1871
Gustave Caillebotte - Raboteurs de parquets 1875
Henri Fantin-Latour - Autour du Piano (Round the Piano) 1885
Back side of Orsay clock
Edgar Degas - L'Absinthe (The Absinthe Drinker) 1876
Pierre Auguste Renoir - La balançoire 1876
Pierre Auguste Renoir - Portrait de Modèle (Portrait de Margot) 1878
Claude Monet - Chrysanthemums 1878
Théo van Rysselberghe - Sailboats and Estuary, circa 1892-93
Musée d'Orsay Central Gallery
Antoine Bourdelle - Héraclès archer 1909
Antoinne Bourdelle - Ludwig van Beethoven 1903
Paul-Albert Bartholomé - La Vérité, la Philosophie et la Nature 1907-12
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - Les Quatre parties du Monde soutenant la terre 1872
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - La Danse 1866-69
Eugène Delaplanche - Eve après le péché 1867-69
Paul Dubois - Chanteur florentin du XVème siècle 1865
Antoine-Louis Barye - Napoléon Ier en empereur romain 1858
Henri Alfred Jacquemart - Rhinocéros 1878
Pierre-Louis Rouillard - Cheval à la herse 1878
Looking east from Passerelle Solférino; Musée d'Orsay on the right, Louvre on left
Looking east from Passerelle Solférino; Pont Royal with Notre Dame in background
Looking west from Passerelle Solférino; Pont de la Concorde and Grand Palais
Park near Julie and Xavier's apartment
Judy and Graham near bottom of waterfall
Looking down from top of waterfall
Looking up Boulevard Circulaire de La Défense (on the way to Metro from apartment)
Looking up Boulevard Circulaire de La Défense
East side of Louvre
Temple de l'Oratoire (beside Louvre)
Cour Carrée (Louvre courtyard)
Entering Cour Napoléon of Louvre
Louvre; pyramid by I. M. Pei
Soldier guarding Louvre main entrance
Mid day queue for security check
A. Canova - Psyche and Cupid 1787-1800
Jean Boulougne (Giambologna) - Mercury Flying, circa 1564
Michelangelo - The Dying Slave 1513-1515
Anonymous - Hercules Battling The Hydra, circa 1550
Athena
Aphrodite (Venus de Milo), circa 130 BC
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, circa 200 BC
Veronese - The Wedding Feast at Cana 1562-63
Leonardo da Vinci - Mona Lisa (La Giaconda), circa 1503-06
Véronèse - Saint Marc récompensant les vertus 1556
Théodore Géricault - The Raft of the Medusa 1819
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin - Clytemnestre hésitant avant de frapper Agamemnon endormi 1817
Jacques-Louis David - The Coronation of Napolean 1805-07
Jacques-Louis David - The Sabines 1799
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin - L'Aurore et Céphale 1810
Louvre founded 1792
Corinthian helmets, circa 7th Century BC
What's next?
Auguste Renoir - La Lecture 1890
Rubens Gallery
Johannes Vermeer - The Astronomer 1668
Johannes Vermeer - The Lacemaker 1669-70
Van Dyck - Charles I, circa 1635
Rubens - The Virgin with Angels (The Madonna and Child surrounded by the Holy Innocents) 1618
Rubens - Hélène Fourment and Two of her Children 1635-36
Nicolas Coustou - La Seine et la Marne 1701-12
Pierre Lepautre and Jean-Baptiste Théodon - Arria et Poetus 1685-95
Antoine Coysevox - Neptune 1705
Antoine Coysevox - Rénommée montée sur Pégase 1701-02
Antoine Coysevox - Mercure monté sur Pégase 1701-02
Guillaume Coustou - Horse Restrained by a Groom (Marly Horses) 1743-45
Moat of Medieval Louvre fortress (excavated in 1980s)
Inverted Pyramid, Galerie du Carrousel, Louvre
Place Colette, across from Louvre
Interesting metal cladding on Ministry of Culture(?)
Pont Neuf viewed from Pont au Change
Palais de Justice
Cathédrale Notre Dame
Notre Dame altar and sanctuary
Notre Dame nave
Rose window in Notre Dame south transept
Rose window in Notre Dame north transept
View from Notre Dame tower toward Eiffel Tower
Montmartre and Sacré Coeur viewed from Notre Dame
Clock on Notre Dame
Spire on Notre Dame
Largest bell at Notre Dame
Restrained tourists and gargoyles
Hungry gargoyle
Gargoyle on Notre Dame tower
Eiffel Tower from Notre Dame tower
Montparnasse Tower, built in 1973
Sacré Coeur Basilica, viewed from Notre Dame tower
Dome Church, Hôtel des Invalides and Eiffel Tower
Grand Palais, La Defense and Arc de Triomphe from Notre Dame tower
View to the east from Notre Dame tower
Panorama from Eiffel Tower to Sacré Coeur
Notre Dame from Latin Quarter
Notre Dame
Catching afternoon rays on Île St. Louis
View of Pantheon from Île St. Louis. Ice cream stand on the left!
Grande Arche de la Défense and Avenue de las Grande Armée from Arc de Triomphe
Avenue Foch and Avenue de la Grande Armée
Eiffel Tower from Arc de Triomphe
Avenue des Champs-Élysées
Ferris wheel in Jardin des Tuileries
Grande Arche de la Défense
Eiffel Tower decked out for Rugby World Cup
Hôtel des Invalides Dome Church
Sacré Coeur lit up, from Arc de Triomphe
TV studio for Rugby World Cup
Graham, Judy on top of Arc de Triomphe
Crazy traffic
Eiffel Tower searchlights
Down staircase in Arc de Triomphe
Derek and Judy on Place Charles de Gaulle
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Spotlight on Derek
Looking up at Arc de Triomphe
Crazy traffic from street level
La Défense artwork
La Défense skyscraper
Entrance to Palace of Versailles
North Wing including Chapel
Queue to collect headsets and start tour
Hercules Drawing Room
Veronese - Meal at the House of Simon the Pharisee, in Hercules Drawing Room
The Apotheosis of Hercules
Royal Chapel
Drawing Room of Plenty
Drawing Room of Plenty ceiling
Venus Drawing Room
Venus Drawing Room ceiling
Diana Drawing Room
Mars Drawing Room ceiling
Automaton clock in Mercury Drawing Room
State bed in Mercury Drawing Room
Apollo Drawing Room
Throne in Apollo Drawing Room
Louis XIV depicted crossing the Rhine in the War Drawing Room
War Drawing Room ceiling
War Drawing Room
Hall of Mirrors
Antechamber of the Oeil-de-Boeuf (Bullseye)
King's Bedchamber
Louis XV's Bedchamber
Council Chamber
Peace Drawing Room
Queen's Bedchamber
Salon des Nobles
Parterre Sud
Marble Staircase
Gino de Dominicis - Calamita Cosmica 1988 (visiting sculpture, erected the week before)
Gino de Dominicis - Calamita Cosmica 1988
Calamita Cosmica and Palace
West facade of Palace (Hall of Mirrors)
Water Parterre and North Wing
Graham, Judy and the Grand Perspective
Fountain of Latona and the Grand Perspective
Fountain of Latona
Judy in Salle du Bal garden
Fountain in Salle du Bal garden
Topiary
Colonnade with Girardon's The Rape of Persephone by Pluto
Fountain of Apollo rising above the waves
Tapis verte
Fountain of Apollo
Fountain of Enceladus
Fountain of Spring (or Flora)
Fountain of Summer (or Ceres)
Excellent lunch in town of Versailles
View west from under Grande Arche de la Défense
View north-west from under Grande Arche de la Défense
Looking up from under Grande Arche de la Défense
La Défense artwork hiding elevators to parking
Etretat
Porte d'Aval, Etretat
Cliffs at Etretat
Cliff at Etretat
Cliff with cave and Porte d'Aval, Etretat
Xavier and Julie
Graham and Judy
La Manne Porte, Etretat
Bridge to cave
Looking down from bridge to cave
View from cave
L'Augille (The Needle) at Etretat
L'Augille and Porte d'Aval, Etretat
Julie and Judy
Derek on La Manne Porte
Judy and Julie
Scuba divers
Lighthouse east of Etretat
Returning alongside golf course
Town of Etretat, our lunch spot in background
Mussels for lunch!
Mussels in cider! Yum!
The remains
Our restaurant for lunch from the outside, in Etretat
Town of Etretat
Mini version of Le Pont de Normandie at visitor centre
Le Pont de Normandie cable-stayed bridge completed in 1995
Lieutenance of Honfleur
Vieux bassin of Honfleur
We had delicious dessert crêpes here
Wooden bell tower of wooden Sainte Catherine church (on right)
Sainte Catherine church on left
Happy shoppers!
Many art shops in Honfleur
Garden beside car park in Honfleur
Royal Barrière Hotel in Deauville, where Xavier has stayed
Beach at Deauville, Normandy
Kite flying on Deauville beach
Deauville boardwalk, with cabanas named after movie stars
Xavier, Julie and Normandy Barrière hotel
5 star Normandy Barrière hotel in Deauville
Staircase and elevator to pedestrian level of La Défense on way to Metro from Julie and Xavier's
Park with waterfall near Julie and Xavier's apartment
La Madeleine
Paris' new Vélib' bike subscription service
Les Galeries Lafayette
Le Mur des je t'aime (Wall of Love) in Montmartre
Restaurant in Montmartre that serves drinks in baby bottles
Montmartre street artist
Basilica Sacre Coeur
Funicular railway
Place du Tertre, Montmartre
Lunch among painters in Place du Tertre, Montmartre
Julie and Graham
Crêpe making on Rue Norvins, Montmartre
Rue St. Rustique, Montmartre
Montmartre Grape Harvest Festival
St. Louis and Joan of Arc guarding Sacré Coeur
Sacré Coeur Basilica, completed 1914
View of Eiffel Tower from Dome of Sacré Coeur
Panorama from Eiffel Tower to La Défense, from Dome of Sacré Coeur
West spire of Sacré Coeur
Sun rays from Dome of Sacré Coeur
View of Montmartre Grape Harvest Festival and steps
Eiffel Towel from Dome of Sacré Coeur
Sacré Coeur Basilica
Place St. Pierre, Montmartre
Carrousel at Place St. Pierre, Montmartre
Busy streets with many rugby fans
Looking up Rue Tholozé to Moulin de la Galette
White building used to have a windmill
Seafood market in Montmartre
Back entrance to Moulin Rouge
Front of Moulin Rouge
Balcony featured in Moulin Rouge movie
2 of 3 Printemps buildings
Eiffel Tower
Giant rugby ball in honour of Rugby World Cup
Queue for tower, and rubgy fans heading to giant screen to watch France vs. England semi-final
View of Left Bank
Jardins du Trocadéro and Palais de Chaillot (note paddy wagons and crowds on bridge)
View of Grenelle and Seine
Crowds gathering to watch France vs. England game in Parc du Champ de Mars
Giant TV screen in Parc du Champ de Mars with École Militaire behind
Allée des Cygnes
Dome Church of Hôtel des Invalides
Thousands of fans 2 hours before France-England Rugby Semi-Final
Sacré Coeur viewed from Eiffel Tower
Judy, Derek and Julie on Eiffel Tower
Graham and Judy on Eiffel Tower
Sunset viewed from Eiffel Tower
Jardins du Trocadéro and Palais de Chaillot
Base of Eiffel Tower lit up in IRB colours for Rugby World Cup
Eiffel Tower in IRB colours for Rugby World Cup
Eiffel Tower sparkling
Police on standby in case of rugby crowd trouble
Crowds coming for France-England rugby game on giant TV, and police on standby
Crowds coming for France-England game on giant TV
Sparkling Eiffel Tower from Pont d'Iéna
Sparkling sequence 1 of 4
Sparkling sequence 2 of 4
Sparkling sequence 3 of 4
Sparkling sequence 4 of 4
Heading home
