Photo Album......France............My Paris..........................



My Neighborhood



View to the right from our hotel room window, night, showing the bistro and the convenience store, both of which stayed open until around 2 am.



View to the left from our hotel room window, night. One of the windows near the top right opened onto a book-lined room in which I would see a male figure sitting at a table into the wee hours, sometimes pausing to take a cigarette and look out the window.



View from the bistro across the street from the hotel. This little store carried everything for the traveler, especially if the traveler liked baskets. I bought an umbrella there one day when it was raining.



Notre Dame from the left bank of the Seine about three blocks from the hotel.



Detail of Notre Dame. Don't you just love those little devils or whatever they are?



Another view of Notre Dame with all kinds of statues adorning the roof.



Detail of the front of Notre Dame.



The Square Jean XXIII. This garden at the 'rear' of Notre Dame along the river was a great spot to eat a baguette sandwich dinner.


Within easy walking distance



The marina in the Basin de L'Arsenal just off the Seine with the garden along the right side.



This wonderful garden continued most of the length of the marina.


City Tour



The Arc de Triomphe from the top level of a 'red bus' (Car Rouge)




The lines at the Eiffel Tower were incredible. It was about 35 C that day and there were misters running to cool people waiting to go up in the tower.




The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, next to the Louvre.



The Jardin du Carrousel, walking from the direction of the Louvre toward the Orangerie.



Detail of a building near the Louvre



This time we're on the Batobus and it's a bridge that's overdecorated.


Wonderful gargoyles on the church of St. Severin that we passed walking to the Centre Pompidou.



Paris Plage - the beach of Paris, created for those poor souls who can't get out of town in August, probably because they're in the tourist industry.



The Stravinsky fountain near the Centre Pompidou. Unfortunately, nothing was moving when we were there.



The piece of lawn in the Jardin du Luxembourg off of which the police had to keep chasing would-be loungers.



Lots of shade in the Jardin du Luxembourg. Paris has so many places to sit and enjoy the outdoors.



Another part of the Jardin du Luxembourg



The funicular that eliminates the steep climb up the Butte of Montmartre. Note the view out over the city, although the humidity was so high that the visibility isn't great.



The Basilica de Sacre Coeur



The cemetery at Montmartre. Lots of places to sit in the shade here too if you don't mind the company.



The gardens at the Musee Rodin. Note the relative lack of tourists. So peaceful.



In the sculpture garden at the Musee Rodin. This fellow's eyes seemed to bore right through me.



My daughter-in-law Joli is a John Deere nut and we saw them all over Europe, but this little guy was in the most photogenic location here at the Musee Rodin.



Ste. Chapelle, a relatively small church set incongruously inside the grounds of the Palais du Justice, which meant that you had to go through security to enter the grounds to see the outside of the church.



Another view of Ste. Chapelle.



Paris' City Hall, over-decorated like everything else in town. In conjunction with the Paris Plage project just a block away, there were beach volleyball courts set up in the square in front of the building.



A small museum we encountered on our walk to the Place du Vosges, the Musee Carnevalet.



The garden at the Place de Vosges.