Ready to go! |
Finally on our way |
Wheeeee! French! |
Cool overnight flight goodies |
Yum |
Air France has got it right! |
Transcontinental Sunrise |
More sunrise |
France patchwork |
French vista |
Landing... |
New friend, gave us a bottle of wine for honeymoon gift! |
Joe zonked |
Driving through Provence |
Beautiful Provence! |
Got lost, but it was pretty! Poppies! |
Our B&B cat |
Steps leading to our room |
Sablet, Provence on the Cotes du Rhone wine road |
Sablet |
La Bastide Bleu restaurant and inn |
View from the restaurant parking lot |
Seguret, another medieval hilltop town |
Seguret stoop |
Jenny in Seguret |
Pretty Seguret roses |
First official French meal in Vaison du Romaine |
Vaison du Romaine main square |
Some wine and journaling |
Took us awhile to figure out the menu and order! |
B&B Breakfast |
Joe and the view |
Mas du Clos de l'Escarrat-our B&B |
l'Escarrat vineyard & Poppies |
l'Escarrat vineyard |
Mas du Clos de l'Escarrat |
Another B&B view |
Avignon |
Avignon main street |
Can't remember, but it was neat |
Avignon Forum Square |
Palace of the Popes |
Golden statue on top |
Sculpture in front of Palace |
Another building in palace square |
Avignon side street |
Avignon city wall |
Ed! |
Arles |
Arles, there are roman ruins behind that wall on the left |
Arles street |
School field trip in Arles |
Lunch in Arles, the beaujolais is actually a water bottle. |
Delicious white wine! |
Delicious Saucisse Arles (or something like that) |
The happiest dog ever! |
Rabbit! |
Cafe in Arles |
Arles wall along the Rhone River |
That's a Roman amphitheatre down there! |
Roman amphitheatre |
Amphitheatre hallway |
View from amphitheatre tower |
Coolest grafitti ever |
Provencal shop in Arle |
Bought a provencal tablecloth here! |
Roman remains in the Arles forum square |
Cafe Creme at Le Cafe la Nuit |
Famous van Gogh painting |
On the hunt for van Gogh sites! |
Just a guy having a rest |
Starry Night Over the Rhone |
The Little Yellow House in Arles |
Late dinner in Arles, pretty light |
Joe and pastis |
Coolest hitchhiker ever |
Nice train station |
Leaving the Cote d'Azur - not the bluest part... |
Train food! |
The first of many ham & mushroom sandwhiches with the crusts cut off |
Our unexpected hotel room in Genoa - neat old hotel! |
Cinque Terre - the view from Riomaggiore |
Starting off on the Via dell'Amore |
Beautiful view |
Beautiful water |
On our way to Manarola |
Smooch! |
Manarola |
Manarola Clock tower |
Manarola harbor - waiting for the ferry |
Leaving Manarola |
Vernazza Castle |
Vernazza |
Tegame alla Vernazza is the most typical main course in Vernazza: anchovies, potatoes, tomatoes, white wine, oil, and herbs. |
Sciacchetrà - dessert wine and "fried milk" (custard!) |
Sciacchetrà is delectable! |
Delicious cappucino! |
Vernazza laundry |
Vernazza boats and beach |
Narrow stepped lanes — called carrugi |
View from the castle tower |
Vernazza harbour |
Another castle view |
Ruins in the distance |
Venice - the "new" part |
Venice! |
Venice Windowsill |
Venice |
Venice "alley" |
Venice |
Venice architechture-3 different styles |
Gondolas |
Gondolier |
Pretty mosaic |
Church of San Giorgio Maggiore |
Close up... |
Pretty ivy |
Late lunch - a Rick Steves recommended restaurant - Pasta and Prosecco! |
Our waiter said RS was eating there just the day before! |
St. Mark's Square |
Fun with pigeons! |
Joe wasn't quite as popular ;o) |
Venice Canal |
Looking the other way |
St. Suplice |
Caretaker |
Venetian view |
Venice window |
The best gelateria in Venice! |
Strawberries and Cream |
Chocolate of course |
Best busker we've ever heard |
Fun |
The sun is starting to set... |
Venice canal |
Another canal |
They do have streets... |
Things are winding down |
Gondola parking lot |
Joe on the Rialto bridge |
VeniceEvening |
Smooching on the Rialto Bridge |
Frutta di Mare - oops... |
I'll eat it's tentacles... |
but I'm not touching it's head! |
Evening Friends |
Lovely Venetian dinner |
The restaurant |
Adjacent to the Rialto Fish Market |
Same restaurant |
Venice by night |
The ceiling of the shops lining the bottom of the Riato bridge |
'nother night view |
Venice Train Station- catching our sleeper train to Munich |
Our spacious sleeper for two |
Uh...thought we were getting one bed, not couchettes for two, lol! |
Breakfast and our passports returned |
Treno Notte |
Munich Train Station - huge and spiffy! |
Hee! |
Heading down the autobahn towards Rothenberg |
Rothenberg ob der Tauber |
The most well-preserved medieval town in Germany |
Heading in to town |
Colorful alley |
Main square |
Heading downstairs for brats in the cellar |
Bratwurst, sauerkraut and Bier - perfect! |
Restaurant owner - great guy! |
Beautiful church |
Got to hear a brief organ concert |
Inside the church |
City wall from the inside |
City wall from the outside |
Nurnberg |
Nurnberg Opera house |
Nurnberg City Wall |
Inside the old city |
Old church |
Some sort of monument - Nurnberg wasn't on our schedule, had no guidebook to tell us what was what. :o) |
But we did find the Bierfest! |
At the bottom of the castle moat! |
Cool... |
Well, if ya gotta be stranded somewhere... |
Angus beef, carved off of a spit |
SO good! |
Bier in the moat |
Return your stein to get your $2 deposit back |
I guess Germans like candy after their bier? |
The only beer we got to! |
Just hanging out on the cobblestones below the castle |
Listening to the Italian singers |
An ever expanding crowd! |
Our new friend Wolfgang on the right, that other guy just decided he wanted to be in the picture, lol |
Nurnberg wall in the early am, heading to the train station to finally get to Prague |
On the way to Prague |
Bachelor party on the train - cute actually, this guy's buddies were making him sell random things to get drinking money. |
Train view |
Prague train station |
Our taxi driver Alex |
Our Prague apartment |
The view towards the kitchen, that's Marie back there |
Our "Welcome to Prague" snack! |
One of the building's Mucha windows, each landing on the stairs had one |
Teeny, tiny elevator |
Apartment Foyer |
Our way cool Art Deco apt. building |
Old Town Square |
Jan Hus Memorial and Tyn Church |
Italian Dance & Music troupe - the musicians |
The dancers |
St. Nicholas Church on Old Town Square |
Buildings lining the squre |
Astronomical Clock |
Nesting dolls |
View of Mala Strana, St. Vitus Cathedral and Castle complex from Charles Bridge |
Charles Bridge musicians - some great old-timey jazz |
Sounded real Parisian actually... |
Charles Bridge statue |
'nother bridge musician |
We were worried about these two when the hailstorm hit, they sang beautifully |
The beginning of Mala Strana - you can see the flood line on the yellow building from that severe flood a few years ago |
An artist at work |
This passageway down to a restaurant is so narrow, there's a traffic light for whose turn it is to walk through! |
Neat spiderweb art in the courtyard. |
Charles Bridge Tower |
Our laundry drying on the line - much to Joe's horror! |
Charles Bridge |
Us in 40 years. :o) |
Waldstein Gardens - Valdstejnska zahrada |
These gardens are in the backyard the palace of Gen. Albrecht Waldstein |
Very sculptured with lots of bronze statues |
A performance venue |
One wall is a giant drip castle! |
Strahov Monastery - the old, abandoned part |
Basilica of Our Lady at the Strahov Monastery |
Entrance of the Basilica |
Beer from the monastery brewery! |
Yum - sausage and potato dumplings |
A real live monk! |
Outside of the Basilica of Our Lady |
the green, green grass of the monastery lawn |
Cafeteria Sign |
Bought some of these wee prints |
Overlooking Prague |
View towards St. Vitus Cathedral |
View towards Charles Bridge |
View including monastery vinyard |
Random beautiful artwork |
Prague has fun street signs |
Loreto Church Bell Tower - tinkly bells are famous |
Loreto Church - Prague |
Joe's having a hard time with the guide bag! |
Well-read guy |
Another fun sign |
Beautiful lampost |
Prague rooftops at sunset |
St. Nicholas Church |
Rooftops below the monastery |
us'n |
Much needed cappucinos |
On the way down from the Palace complex |
Wide, shallow stairs - great view |
Lovey-dovey shadows |
Knights of Malta restaurant |
Used to be an apothecary's lab! |
Wild poster |
Prague art |
Heading towards Charles Bridge |
My Love |
Charles Bridge statue |
Detail of Statue |
Charles Bridge at dusk |
Evening Prague View |
Sun is setting |
View from Charles Bridge |
Bridge candid |
Charles Bridge Statue |
Sunset View |
Joe the photojournalist |
Jenny on Charles Bridge |
Me |
Us |
Sunset on Charles Bridge - Prague |
Sunset View |
Neat Building |
Tyn church in Old Town Square |
Inside St. Nicholas Church |
Bambini di Praga - amazing children's chorus concert in St. Nicholas Church |
USP Jazz Lounge |
St. Vitus Cathedral |
St. Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge |
In the Subway |
Colorful stops |
The escalators make me dizzy! |
Palace Gardens post-hail |
Palace gardens after a huge hailstorm |
Wet gardens |
AfterTheHailstorm |
Steamy view |
Hail in the grass |
Hail cross-section |
Hailstones |
Ethereal Palace Gardens |
Wet St. Vitus Cathedral |
Self-Portraig with St. vitus |
Guard entrance to Palace complex |
Inside St. Vitus |
1st stained glass window to the right |
More stained glass |
Window above the entrance |
Inside St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague |
Such pretty windows |
Beautiful art |
The Mucha Window |
Mucha detail |
More Mucha |
Love the Mucha |
Can't get enough of the Mucah |
Such colors |
Could've stared for hours |
View from the belltower |
Long way down |
Another belltower view |
St. Vitus rooster |
St. Vitus smooch |
More beauty |
St.VitusCathedralDetail |
Interesting sculpture |
More art |
St. Vitus roof in one of the chapels |
Tomb |
St. Vitus being boiled |
Tomb |
St. Wenceslaus (Good King Wenceslaus!) tomb |
Organ Loft |
Another pretty window |
Outside St. Vitus |
St. Vitus |
St. Vitus/Palace Courtyard |
Neat Statue |
On palace grounds |
Heading towards Golden Lane |
Golden Lane |
Tiny little houses that are now shops |
Goldsmith houses or snipers' quarters? |
Met a couple who take pictures of their sock monkey everywhere they go :o) |
Such cute, teeny little houses |
View from the top |
Prague rooftops |
More rooftops |
Prague Cablecars |
Prague Jazz Festival |
David Sanchez |
Love the subway stations |
Rainy glow in Prague... |
Tyn Church at night |
Teren, our resident cat |
View from our flat window - Josefov |
Marie, our flat landlady |
Mucha window in the stairwell |
The apt. building we stayed in |
Who knew Eddie Murphy had a second job! |
Cemetary in Josefov - the old Jewish quarter of Prague |
Founded in 1478 |
12 layers; 12,000 gravestones; 100, 000 people... |
Street sign |
Prague Market |
Astronomical Clock in Old Town Square |
Jan Hus Memorial |
Last Prague meal! |
Our flat address |
Now we're in Paris! |
Neighborhood market under the elevated train tracks |
Buying our picnic food |
First view of the Eiffel Tower! |
Rounding the corner... |
Almost there! |
So cool... |
So huge! |
Picnicking in the shadow of la tour Eiffel |
Great place to hang out |
A cloudy day in Paris |
Neat sign |
Market on ****** street |
The dwarves caught his eye... |
Writing our postcards in a Parisian cafe |
Three cafe au laits each |
I'm a happy girl |
Every cafe had a dog! |
The grand view |
Ah...the Paris Metro |
Pretty view |
Walking along the Seine |
Houseboats |
Art students on the lawn of the Louvre |
The Louvre |
A set-up for a proposal maybe? |
The entrance of the Louvre |
Enjoying the sunset after buying our Museum passes |
Love these signs! |
The fishmarket on our walk from our hotel to the metro |
Winged Victory |
No flash used! |
The Louvre at night... |
L'Ostrea - in a building built in the 1700's |
Neato appetizer! |
Teensy tiny shellfish |
L'Ostrea Restaurant |
Mona Lisa Chaos |
Venus de Milo |
A little cafe near the louvre and Moliere's theater |
Tiny Vermeer... |
Metropolitain entrance |
Arc de Triomphe! |
On our way to Musee d'Orsay - goofy husband |
Fantastical wall in Musee d'Orsay |
Very halloween-y |
Degas |
We stood where he painted this! |
View of Montmartre from Musee d'Orsay |
Sunset on the Seine |
Two honeymooners |
Our night-time Seine cruise |
So of course all the pictures are blurry... |
Joe and the Eiffel Tower |
La Tour Eiffel...yes, blurry, I know |
Orsay from the outside |
Notre Dame at night |
There were dances at the edge of the Seine! |
The boat company |
Found a creperie open late on the left bank |
Perusing the next day's possibilities |
Sugar & butter crepe - Heaven on a plate! |
The creperie |
Neatest metro tile ever! |
Giant seek-n-find |
A church down the street from our hotel |
Patisserie delights |
Our wrapped up croissants and pain au chocolat to go |
Got pain au chocolat here every morning on our way to Paris fun |
A little cafe by the metro stop where we often had cafe au lait |
Very friendly staff here! |
Enjoyed a rainy morning here... |
Boules in the park |
Bought some cherries from a fruit stand along the way |
It's Eiffel Tower day! |
La Tour Eiffel |
A bit nervewracking looking down as you're going up in the elevator |
View of Sacre Couer from la tour Eiffel |
View of our first day's picnic bench! |
Looking up... |
Ah Paris... |
A view of our picnic spot from higher up |
It was windy up there! |
Eiffel Tower - home for decrepit pigeons |
Montmartre Metro stop |
Vincent & Theo Van Gogh lived here! |
This is the building... |
This is the door... |
Montmartre Pooch |
One of the famous Moulins of Montmartre |
Romantic Dinner in Montmartre |
A WONDERFUL, tiny restaurant. Art on the walls, rose petals on the tables. |
Check out the Will Ferrell lookalike behind Joe! Pose mimicking unintentional |
The grocery from Amelie! |
Stumbled upon it by accident. |
La Basilique du Sacré Coeur de Montmartre |
Inside...sneaky picture... |
I love the candles in Catholic churches |
Place du Tertre |
Yup |
More Place du Tertre |
Another view...music spills out from all the different cafes, even late at night |
There are four sides to it after all... |
Another corner cafe |
Neat shop |
Lapin Agile |
The famous rabbit |
Montmartre at night |
My goofy husband |
Ah - our patisserie the next morning! |
More sneaky pictures... |
Look at those baguettes! |
Joe enjoying his daily morning Feuillete au chocolate |
Market at Maubert Mutualite |
Been going on since the middle ages! |
Fresh seafood |
Fresh pigeon! |
Olives galore |
Stormy Notre Dame |
Neat! |
One of the oldest trees in Paris |
Rosy Notre Dame |
Shakespeare and Company! |
Hemmingway used to borrow books from here |
Cosy nook |
Wonderful ambience |
Notre Dame |
Street vendors |
Ah...the Parisian cafe chairs and table |
Neat sign |
St-Etienne du Mont |
Inside the cathedral... |
Old city wall of Paris |
Self-explanatory |
Another apartment of Hemmingway's |
The plaque |
Neat shop |
Tiniest Yorkie ever! |
At the top of Rue Mouffetard |
Market Mouffetard |
oh heaven....a fromagerie |
Cheese glorious cheese! |
Bought cheese for our picnic here |
Lovely little flower shop |
FRESH seafood - the crabs were still blinking at me |
Le Poisson! |
Can't stay away from the cheese! |
Lotsa meat here... |
Corner fruit stand - bought some clementines for our picnic |
The sign says it all |
''nother Rue Mouffetard shop |
Best accidental picture ever! |
Butcher shop |
Rotisserie Chicken - same kind we had for our first Parisian picnic |
A wonderful wine shop! |
Last market on the street |
Pretty storefronts |
Painting Notre Dame |
So pretty with the drizzly rain clouds behind |
Sun is starting to peep through |
Inside - Mass was just starting, we walked in to a THRILLING pipe organ prelude |
Some of the windows |
The pipe organ |
One of the rose windows |
Pretty candles |
An alcove |
The other rose window |
We lit candles in every cathedral in Europe we went into - for so many of our friends and aquaintances suffering from cancer |
Notre Dame |
The sun was out with a vengeance |
Flower stand a few blocks over from ND |
Yet another fantastic Metro entrance |
The flower shop |
Beautiful flowers |
Parisian view |
Our picnic on our last day! Baguette, cheese, champagne... |
Cherries, clementines... |
View from our picnic park bench |
What a wonderful honeymoon... |
smooches! |
The Seine |
Sun is starting to set over the Seine |
View of our picnic spot from the bridge - Ile de la Cite |
Pretty square |
Random church |
Lucky shot from the Metro |
Amazing sunset our last evening |
Our metro stop, an elevated stop. Just out of view down below is a whole little living area with a bed. |
Sky continues to get prettier... |
and even prettier... |
Finally, a nighttime excursion to see La Tour Eiffel twinkling! |
It sparkles every hour for 10 minutes - last sparkle at midnight I think |
So fun! |
Finally cracked open the bottle of wine given to us by someone we met in the train station when we arrived in Paris. |
It was so magical! |
Our hotel room |
Waiting in line at Charle de Gaulle |
After missing our original flight... |
Made it home! (With only one extra bag!) |