Arrived from Liverpool...waiting for my bag....
Paris' Charles de Gaule Terminal 3
Really clear directions for getting into the city...definitely appreciated
Swopped onto the subway from the RER (B) at Denfert-Rochreau - only 4 stops to Pasteur
This is actually in recognition of Monseiur Pasteur's contribution to humanity by the founding of the process we know as pasteurisation
Steps down to the lobby from my room on the second floor
The corridor leading to my room
Public toilets on the street
Fromagerie - shop that sells just cheese - and lots of it
Interesting window display don't you think?
Institute of France - i think
Seine River
one small part of the louvre
the tri-arched gateway to the grounds of the Musee du Louvre
The gates of Sainte Chapelle
lunch - crepe complet : consisting of egg, ham and cheese
Notre Dame - with the thousands of tourists around...
Look at the intricacy of those scuptures..
Candles..
The insides of Notre Dame
More amazing stained glass on the windows...
Model of Notre Dame
Side Perspective
Look at those chandeliers
I liked this painting....
The guy with his head in his hand is meant to be John - coz he was beheaded (I know this only because Cornelia told me)
The gardens at the back of Notre Dame (a well-kept secret shared by Claire) - very beautifula nd uncrowded!
me
Claire and Cornelia outside Notre Dame
Outdoor ice-skating! And those plastic things are buy-able for kids to learn to skate
One of many carousels you'll see around Paris
mad cat
Tour Eiffel in the distance
Sacre Coeur (Sacred Heart Church) in the distance
A huge make-shift igloo - apparantly you go in there and drink hot wine (again I am informed by claire)
A high school....how prestigous looking
France parliament?
Ruins at the corner of Boulevard St Michel and Boulevard St Germain
The Pantheon
me outside the pantheon
A market street where you can find all sorts of stuff like chocolates, cheeses, cakes, meat etc
Cheese Shop!
The kind of cheese you see in Tom & Jerry.... haha
Very very yum hot chocolate
Getting ready for Valentine's Day
Just look at that!!
Ice cream and sorbet - Berthilon's meant to be a really good brand
Trufles
Rue de Mouffetard - a market street with lots of food and what not
Those round things at the bottom are potatoes...and yes they are being cooked in the chicken fat that drips down from the roasting chickens above
It does look yum though
Pheasants!?? Quail?!?! EWWWWW
Duck!
Even seafood is available here...crabs and giant scallops in this photo
Escargot anyone?
Institute of Chemistry
A very cool-looking library
Fountaine de L'observatoire
Table tennis in the park anyone?
Palais du Luxembourg - don't worry I come back again in the day so there're better photos later on
Claire, Cornelia and Me
dinner - fish soup with garlic mayonaise and grilled bread and a side dish of cheese
The upper portions
Looking up the tower from right in the middle when you're standing below the tower
That's me inside the cage at the top floor of the Eiffel Tower
There's the light I mentioned earlier
Sacre Coeur in the distance
Claire and I at the base of the tower
Building of Japanese Culture in Japan
on the end of Avenue des Chanps Elysees
Louis Vuitton buildling
French version of Maccas
A church outside the train station
Funiculare to the top was closed so we had to take the steps
A carousel at it's foot
Sacre Couer at the top...
that's me halfway up!
Finally....within reach
The view from right up the top
Inside the Sacred Heart Church
Beautiful stained glass windows
That's supposedly the archangel Michael
Mosaic on the wall of the archangel michael in battle
The exterior of the church
More gargoyles
Even more...
It's funny i thought it read temptation
Walking amongst the village market stalls
Beautiful acrylic painting on tiles
Cornelia beside a little stall - with our favourite paintings on the square
Look at those colours and contrsat - amazing
The artist at work
Another artit's work - very vivid colours
(Montmartre, Paris)
Alpha...a chirpy little beagle
There he is at full throttle
Condom machines on the street corner???
yum yum yum
THE Moulin Rouge :)
Cornelia and I outside Moulin Rouge
Nice art on the wall..makes it look like a huge iceberg with a huge gaping hole and a world beyond
Cemetiere du Pere-Lachaise
The cemetry where famous people are burried....sorta
Some of many big-named personalities you could see here - allow me to draw your attention to Oscar Wilde - i lurrrve his writing...
Look at that...this could easily be a Paris post card.... (notice the heart ont he back of her coat?)
An example of very elaborate gravestones
Yet more
Alpha and Omega?
A chinese family's grave in ther...the little one on the right says (tu(2) di(4) something...) hmmm a disciple?
Claire by some amazing gravestones
Edith Piaf - the very famous french singer
Look at all those lipstick kiss-marks on Oscar Wilde's tombstone!
Oscar Wilde's Gravestone
We had lunch at Piston Pelican - yum yum
Claire and her ham and cheese crepe
My cheese, ham and mushroom omelette with chips
Cornelia's steak - yum yum
The tiniest ponytail in the world
Marche St Germain
Giant scallops anyone?
Kumquat!!! In france!!! hahahhaa
Green tea cakes at a japanese store
Endives....
Bottled fresh soups and stews
Look at the tiny little radishes
Mini bananas
Mexican band in the tunnels of the subway
These are just normal coke bottles here...i almost wish I was collecting again
Diet coke
The Assemblie Nationale Palais Bourbon
From the front
Another nice steeple - dunno what building this is though
Dome of Hotel des Invalides
Eiffel Tower with crazy lights in the distance
The front of Hotel des Invalides
Galleries Lafayette
Fontaine de L'observatoire
The gates surrounding Jardin du Luxeumbourg - Luxembourg gardens
Neat rows of trees inside the gardens
Nice :p
Palais du Luxembourg at the end of the gardens
The Pantheon again
Quick in the daytime
La Sorbonne - think it's supposed to be the best university in paris
A GIANT block of cheese outside a restaurant and a pigeon pecking away at it...hmmmm
Famous french foods?
Passed the notre dame again, had to take a photo
My huge and generously-filled cheese and mushroom crepe
how's this for crazy architecture
The louvre
You can see the Eiffel Tower from anywhere - literally
Markets on Rue St Charles close to Javel RER station - with all the vintage stuff, kindda like the french version of London's Portobello markets but cheaper
Here it is again, this time from Quai Andrew Citroen
