Paris slideshowSeptember 26 & 27, 2009

Frank

Hope ya enjoy….

Price of fuel – smaller cars.

Napolean’s burial place

Eiffel Tower

Seine River

Eiffel Tower construction

Me at base of Eiffel Tower

Paris from Eiffel Tower’s first level

Another view of Paris from the first level of the Eiffel Tower

What a ride to the second level. Didn’t think we would stop climbing…

Breath taking

Built in 1898 – a remarkable feat

Still more from the second level

Seine River

Eiffel Tower elevator gears… ya gotta wonder

Arc de triomphe

Arc de triomphe

Wide beautiful street leading away from Arc de triomphe

Bicycles are commonly used for transporation.

Monuments at every street intersection.

Hotel Ritz – Princess Di’s last evening

Louvre Museum – Winged Victory of Samathrace

Louvre Museum ceiling

Louvre Museum – Mona Lisa by Leonardo Di Vinci, 1503-1505

Louvre Museum painting

Louvre Museum painting

Louvre Museum – Virgin by the Rocks by Leonardo De Vinci, 1486

Louvre Museum – Christ Carrying of the Cross by Biagio d’Antonio, 1508

Louvre Museum – Fighting Warrior by Agasias of Ephesus, Circa 100BC

Louvre Museum glass roof – Tom Cruise Mission Impossible III

Military monuments and lots of old beautiful buildings.

Narrow streets now pedestrian only

Notre Dame Cathedral

Notre Dame Cathedral outside close up

Spectators as myself…..

Cathedral stained glass windows

A beautiful stained glass window

A baptism

Notre Dame Chapelle Saint Guillaume

Notre Dame model

Candleopera

Parisian native dress

Bicycles for rent

My Paris buddy shopping

Street entertainment

Parisian buildings and street light

Wide open pedestrian walkways

One of several Paris Police Stations

Paris Police

My Paris buddy and me in front of Notre Dame

Visitors and tourist and more of each

Can fit one or two of these into some of our gas hungry SUV’s

Flowered balconies

Our Seine River night cruise….

Doesn’t she look good?

Night time partiers all along Seine River banks

Eiffel Tower at night

Me and Eiffel Tower

My wonderful USO Paris tour ends except for the long bus ride back