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Kenny at the restaurant on the Eiffel Tower Taken on the first level of the Eiffel Tower. View of Paris from the Eiffel Tower Looking up -- the top levels were closed due to wind The Eiffel Tower at night, taken from the cruise boat on the Seine Taken at Versailles -- our "Fat Bike Tire" tour companions, including our dreadlocked guide, River A view of the palace at Versailles taken from the end of the Grand Canal Ah, this is the life. Kenny resting during our Versailles bike tour Inside the palace at Versailles Part of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles Artwork everywhere at Versailles An open-air market near Versailles Cottage on the grounds at Versailles The bike tour group fascinated by fish at Versailles The beautiful grounds at Versailles were Marie Antoinette's refuge from palace life Marie Antoinette's cottage at Versailles in the background The Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysees Road signs on the way to Normandy More road signs between Paris and Normandy Near Pegasus Bridge; the first home liberated by tne Allies is now a tourist spot It was cooooold and windy on Pegasus Bridge! Kenny checking out the remains of the false harbor constructed by the Allies on Omaha Beach in Normandy The U.S. Military Cemetary at Normandy. Over 9,000 graves, with most of the casualties on D-Day Permanent tribute for the ultimate sacrifice One of the monuments on a beach at Normandy Kenny dwarfed by another memorial on a Normandy Beach Walking along the beach where the Allied D-Day invasion started The famous Arc de Triomphe de L'Etoile on the Champs Elysees. Largest arc in the world; started by Napoleon's order in 1806 Looking from the Arc toward the Champs Elysees This monument was already here before it happened, but this is where Princess Diana was killed in the tunnel Les Invalides, where Napoleon's tomb is at rest. Part of the grounds is still a working veterans' hospital Napoleon's Tomb Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers at the Arc de Triomphe Cheryl huffin' and puffin' her way up the stairs of the Arc de Triomphe A beautiful view from atop the Arc de Triomphe Cartier's on the Champs Elysees A Cartier necklace probably costs more than my house! What says Paris like a MickyD's on the Champs Elysees? A cruise boat on the River Seine Notre Dame Kenny at the Louvre View of courtyard and one wing of the Louvre taken from another wing Venus de Milo at the Louvre One of thousands (?) of pieces of artwork at the Louvre The Pyramid at the Louvre -- some call it the scar upon the face of Paris The Arc de Triomphe de Carrousel between the Louvre and the Jardin de Tuileries (Tuileries Garden) A momma duck and her babies swimming in a fountain at Tuileries Garden Keeping her duckies all in a row at Tuileries Garden The Obelisk of Luxor at La Place de la Concorde near Tuileries Garden is over 3,000 years old The Arc de Triomphe de Carrousel at the Place de Concorde near the Louvre Jim Morrison's grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery. Jim Morrison's grave Sarah Bernhardt is buried at Pere Lachaise in Paris Richard Wright's final resting place at Pere Lachaise At the Louvre ...another Louvre display... French cuisine at its finest Basilica at Sacre Coeur at Montmarte. Not far from our hotel in Paris These little "smart cars" were everywhere in Paris. Coming soon to a U.S. dealer near you... Moulin Rouge was about 10 minutes from our hotel in Paris
Kenny at the restaurant on the Eiffel Tower |
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