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Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
Paris (Part 7)
Notre Dame
Another view of Notre Dame
Us by the Seine
The Batobus passed Notre Dame and dropped us off outside the Louvre, we stopped to take a few Photos
Paris (Part 6)
Views from the Rear of a Batoboat, we used this to get back to the Louvre (instead of walking back along the Seine)
Paris (Part 3)
A 'Living' Building
The Eiffel Tower
The Tower from below
The Tower again
The Eiffel tower is fantastic, its amazing that a structure the was meant to be temporary is still there, and that anyone would have thought of building something so huge just to take it down again! Rowan and I walked up the tower (not because we thought it was a good idea, just because the queue was considerably shorter than the elevator queues), this proved to be quite draining in the heat. It was worth it though.
Paris (Part 2)
Outside the Louvre
The river Seine
Pont Alexandre III
We walked from the Louvre along the River Seine towards the Eiffel Tower, it was really hot (about 33 degrees) and absolutely beautiful
Paris (Part 1)
Sacre-Couer from a distance
Opera Garnier
The Louvre
Went to Paris for a weekend, arrived late friday evening on the Eurostar and spent 45 minutes queuing for a Taxi, we then were told by the taxi driver it would take us 2 minutes to walk to our hotel (what he really meant was: It'll take you about 45 minutes and you;ll get horribly lost, but I want a longer fare than you're going to give me)
The following morning after a typical frecnh breakfast in a roadside cafe, we walked from our hotel to the Boulevard Des Italiens, down the Avenue De L'Opera past the Palais Royale toward the Louvre.
Leeds Castle (Part 4)
The Grotto
Swans at feeding time
Peacock in the Gardens
Same peacock after being harassed by children
After the Maze you made your way down into the grotto to get out (going back out via the maze didn;t seem very appealing) ... it was dark and cool, which was exactly what we needed after being stuck in the maze for 30 mins in the heat.
On the way out we saw the water fowl being fed, it was the strangest sight to see 30 odd swans swimming towards a bird handler to be fed, kind of unnerving in a way ... The poor peaccocks were being harassed all day by small children.
Leeds Castle (Part 3)
Another view of the Castle
Alcove with Statuette
Rowan on the stairs
The Maze
The interior of the Castle was beautiful and only a fraction of the rooms were open. The maze looked to be realtively easy, we then proceeded to get lost (along with everybody else).
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