Our street, Rue du Bouloi, near the Louvre:
Walking across Pont Neuf on the first day. If that sounds familiar, it's probably not because you know so much about Paris-- it's probably because Jason Bourne sets up a meeting with the CIA dude there in the Bourne Identity!
Flower market:
Bird market:
These statue/fountains are all over the place in Paris. I think some Englishman put up the money to create hundreds of them to place around the city:
Loved the art deco Metro entrances:
At lunch on Ile St. Louis, the small island next to Ile de la Cite, where Notre Dame is, among other things:
Chocolate statues everyone must have: A pig playing the sax and a monkey riding a bike:
At the Marais, a cute neighborhood that houses the old Jewish district, many nice shops, and the Picasso museum:
Pausing at a park in the Marais:
El Beso, at the Picasso museum. Have to say it was better than the Picasso exhibit we saw in Rome in December:
Having a coffee in the Marais:
Childhood friend on a wall:
We tried to find a restaurant here, until Dad realized that he'd picked up his bookstore list instead of his resaturant list. There was indeed a bookstore there, however:
Random fake beehive on a building corner:
Lovely Parisian building entrance:
At Napoleon's tomb:
At lunch -- False Advertising:
L'Arc de Triomphe at the end of the Champs Elysees:
Statue of Charles DeGaulle, great French liberator/statesman/military strategist:
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, in front of the pyramid entrance to the Louvre:
In Montparnasse, paying homage to Ernest Hemingway. He hung out at the Rotonde, the Dome, and the Closerie des Lilas, as documented in numerous of his books, both fiction and nonfiction, including his great memoirs of 1920s Paris, A Moveable Feast.
having a coffee at the Rotonde:
Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises at La Closerie des Lilas in a 6-week stretch:
"Silvia Beach's bookstore and lending library", as it is known in Hemingway's books/stories:
In Montmartre at L'Espace Dali, a Salvador Dali museum. Totally amazing.
Some sketches I loved:
View of the Eiffel Tower from Montmatre, which sits at the top of a hill:
Sacre Coeur of Montmartre - also seen in my below Eiffel Tower pictures from afar, perched at the top of the hill of Montmatre:
Me in front of Sacre Coeur; Paris in the background:
The "Agile Rabbit", where Picasso apparently hung out when he lived and worked in Montmartre in the early 1900s. Later he moved to Montparnasse, where Hemingway and all them lived.
Walking home after dinner one night, captured this evening photo:
Eiffel Tower:
View of the city:
View of Sacre Coeur and Montmartre:
Notre Dame:
One of the famous "Rose Windows":
Sainte Chapelle, which they call the "jewel box of Paris". Like Notre Dame, it is on Ile de la Cite. The upper level is stunning - all stained glass. Lower level:
Upper level:
Gargoyles on the facade:
