yeah, it was pretty crowded!
Arrive in London
London Train Station
Taxi to Hoxton Hotel
London Taxi
Spitalfield chapel - landmark for Liverpool Tube Station
Chelsea
Lots of fancy cars in London
Smart cars are awesome
London is most expensive place in the world to live; can tell by all the Ferraris zipping around
Neighborhood Park in Sloane Square
Tiffany's!
Neighborhood Church
Tombstones backed up to a soccer pitch
En route to Knightsbridge (where largest Harrod's is - 4 acres!)
Self portrait #1 - Hyde Park
Jen in Lady Di's Rose Garden
Chariot across from Buckingham Palace
Rollerblading posse
Big Ben!
Buckingham Palace
Big Ben via taxi
Tower of London - only day it rained in London!
Inside arches of chapel; Tower of London
Tower Bridge
Ancient Bedroom
For the nightly prayers
View of solar powered hotel on River Thames
Artilery in TOL
LOTS of rifles
Beheading axe, yikes
Chapel TOL
TOL Toilet
Gin & Beer
The Ravens of TOL
Crossing Tower Bridge
The Thames
Tate Modern
The London Eye
Big Ben/Parliament as seen from the Eye
Lauren, me, Jen & Sam (Sam's Bday!)
Quite the view
Man watering side of building...
Because its grass!
Chapel at Barbican
Wicked!
W/“Nessa Rose” aka, Katie Rowley-Jones
Just for Young William!
Isn't that nice?!
New stadium
Cool building next to Arsenal Stadium
Time to shop!
Billy's dream bedroom
What to get?!
Victoria & Albert Museum
Tombs & colums, very cool
Lovely day in London Town!
View outside V&A
Science Museum
Just like Amelia Earhart
Space pod
Sweet!
Wave of the future
Lovely chapel next to Sciene Museum
MGB
The Ivy
Longest running show in London
No star sightings, but a great meal!
Ahh, the tube
Cambridge
King's Church
1st View from King's Crossing Entrance
Not a bad place to attend university
Renowned fan columns
Organ pipes inside King's Church
A punt ride down the Banks
The college is known for their lovely gardens
Sunken garden
A view from the Banks
46 Nobel Prize Winners have come out of Trinity College
Punt ride w/guide Nic
Building that looks like a boat coming into dock
Inspiration for Harry Potter
Nice cars in Cambridge too
Last night in London - Liverpool Street
Spitalfield's Church at dusk
the crypt...
the cars in paris are just as cool as london!
Sevres Saint Germaine - Hotel in Paris
Think I need this car
Hotel des Invailides - Napoleon
The gold dome at des Invalides
1st sighting of Le Tour Eiffel
Looking out from des Invalides
Inside Hotel des Invalides
marble tomb
altar, des Invalides
Napoleon's Tomb
The man himself
The Iron Crown broach
Ornate pistol
Self portrait!
Lovely day in Paris
Armor, @ Invalides
They even made armor for their horses
Wonder how heavy that is?
even the kids wore armor!
Are those clouds rolling in?
Yup, big bad storm clouds!
Wow, that's a torrential rain storm
Dark sky
Still raining
1st breakfast in Paris - pain au chocolat & cafe creme!
En route to Versailles
1st glimpse of Versailles
Inside the church at Versailles
Ornate gold altar
Le jardins de Versailles
On the tour at Versailles
Ceiling Art
Quite a bed!
Hall of mirrors
Famous painting...missing baby from the crib (was removed after he died)
The coronation of Napoleon & Josephine
Jen & the jardins!
Versailles getting a bit of a face lift
The princesses
Coolest globe I've ever seen
another self portrait, Versailles
cafe viennois....delicious!
jen loves her cappucino!
Doure & Joavinisse - cute French schoolchildren on the train from Versailles
Joavinisse the photographer
Think he liked my camera
Le Tour Eiffel
Not too sure want to go up there on a stormy day...
Gypsy dancers
View from the Seine
crazy painting on side of a building
L'arc de Triomphe
Wild glass building on Champs d'Elysses
Had to make a stop here
the obelisk at night
Place de la Concorde
1st view of Musee d'Orsay; was once a train station
got busted for taking this photo; forgot to turn off the flash...oops!
detail of ceiling; musee d'orsay
whistler
Degas and his ballerinas
ballerina movie
One of my faves from Van Gogh
self portrait # 27
1st view of Notre Dame. yup, another rainy day in Paris.
Inside Notre Dame
Rose Window
Behind the altar; ND
One of the windmills of Montmarte
Sacre Coeur
gargoyle!
Stormy day in Montmarte
Gosh its cold
and windy
Steps to Sacre Coeur
Amelie's park below!
looking up to Sacre Coeur
Les Jardins Tuileries
outside of the Louvre
ah, the pyramids of the Louvre
inside view of small pyramid
Cues already?! Its barely 930a
waiting to get into the Louvre
looking out of the big pyramid
Egypt must've been pretty cool way back when
hey! it's still raining
Venus de Milo
Wings of Samothrace
Ingres - La grande Odalisque
love dutch artists!
opera house
shopping at the gallerie
