|  Ready to go!
 |  Finally on our way
 |  Wheeeee!  French!
 |  Cool overnight flight goodies
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|  Yum
 |  Air France has got it right!
 |  Transcontinental Sunrise
 |  More sunrise
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|  France patchwork
 |  French vista
 |  Landing...
 |  New friend, gave us a bottle of wine for honeymoon gift!
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|  Joe zonked
 |  Driving through Provence
 |  Beautiful Provence!
 |  Got lost, but it was pretty!  Poppies!
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|  Our B&B cat
 |  Steps leading to our room
 |  Sablet, Provence on the Cotes du Rhone wine road
 |  Sablet
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|  La Bastide Bleu restaurant and inn
 |  View from the restaurant parking lot
 |  Seguret, another medieval hilltop town
 |  Seguret stoop
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|  Jenny in Seguret
 |  Pretty Seguret roses
 |  First official French meal in Vaison du Romaine
 |  Vaison du Romaine main square
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|  Some wine and journaling
 |  Took us awhile to figure out the menu and order!
 |  B&B Breakfast
 |  Joe and the view
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|  Mas du Clos de l'Escarrat-our B&B
 |  l'Escarrat vineyard & Poppies
 |  l'Escarrat vineyard
 |  Mas du Clos de l'Escarrat
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|  Another B&B view
 |  Avignon
 |  Avignon main street
 |  Can't remember, but it was neat
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|  Avignon Forum Square
 |  Palace of the Popes
 |  Golden statue on top
 |  Sculpture in front of Palace
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|  Another building in palace square
 |  Avignon side street
 |  Avignon city wall
 |  Ed!
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|  Arles
 |  Arles, there are roman ruins behind that wall on the left
 |  Arles street
 |  School field trip in Arles
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|  Lunch in Arles, the beaujolais is actually a water bottle.
 |  Delicious white wine!
 |  Delicious Saucisse Arles (or something like that)
 |  The happiest dog ever!
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|  Rabbit!
 |  Cafe in Arles
 |  Arles wall along the Rhone River
 |  That's a Roman amphitheatre down there!
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|  Roman amphitheatre
 |  Amphitheatre hallway
 |  View from amphitheatre tower
 |  Coolest grafitti ever
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|  Provencal shop in Arle
 |  Bought a provencal tablecloth here!
 |  Roman remains in the Arles forum square
 |  Cafe Creme at Le Cafe la Nuit
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|  Famous van Gogh painting
 |  On the hunt for van Gogh sites!
 |  Just a guy having a rest
 |  Starry Night Over the Rhone
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|  The Little Yellow House in Arles
 |  Late dinner in Arles, pretty light
 |  Joe and pastis
 |  Coolest hitchhiker ever
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|  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
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|  Our unexpected hotel room in Genoa - neat old hotel!
 |  Cinque Terre - the view from Riomaggiore
 |  Starting off on the Via dell'Amore
 |  Beautiful view
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|  Beautiful water
 |  On our way to Manarola
 |  Smooch!
 |  Manarola
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|  Manarola Clock tower
 |  Manarola harbor - waiting for the ferry
 |  Leaving Manarola
 |  Vernazza Castle
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|  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!
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|  Delicious cappucino!
 |  Vernazza laundry
 |  Vernazza boats and beach
 |  Narrow stepped lanes — called carrugi
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|  View from the castle tower
 |  Vernazza harbour
 |  Another castle view
 |  Ruins in the distance
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|  Venice - the "new" part
 |  Venice!
 |  Venice Windowsill
 |  Venice
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|  Venice "alley"
 |  Venice
 |  Venice architechture-3 different styles
 |  Gondolas
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|  Gondolier
 |  Pretty mosaic
 |  Church of San Giorgio Maggiore
 |  Close up...
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|  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
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|  Fun with pigeons!
 |  Joe wasn't quite as popular ;o)
 |  Venice Canal
 |  Looking the other way
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|  St. Suplice
 |  Caretaker
 |  Venetian view
 |  Venice window
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|  The best gelateria in Venice!
 |  Strawberries and Cream
 |  Chocolate of course
 |  Best busker we've ever heard
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|  Fun
 |  The sun is starting to set...
 |  Venice canal
 |  Another canal
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|  They do have streets...
 |  Things are winding down
 |  Gondola parking lot
 |  Joe on the Rialto bridge
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|  VeniceEvening
 |  Smooching on the Rialto Bridge
 |  Frutta di Mare - oops...
 |  I'll eat it's tentacles...
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|  but I'm not touching it's head!
 |  Evening Friends
 |  Lovely Venetian dinner
 |  The restaurant
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|  Adjacent to the Rialto Fish Market
 |  Same restaurant
 |  Venice by night
 |  The ceiling of the shops lining the bottom of the Riato bridge
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|  '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!
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|  Breakfast and our passports returned
 |  Treno Notte
 |  Munich Train Station - huge and spiffy!
 |  Hee!
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|  Heading down the autobahn towards Rothenberg
 |  Rothenberg ob der Tauber
 |  The most well-preserved medieval town in Germany
 |  Heading in to town
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|  Colorful alley
 |  Main square
 |  Heading downstairs for brats in the cellar
 |  Bratwurst, sauerkraut and Bier - perfect!
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|  Restaurant owner - great guy!
 |  Beautiful church
 |  Got to hear a brief organ concert
 |  Inside the church
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|  City wall from the inside
 |  City wall from the outside
 |  Nurnberg
 |  Nurnberg Opera house
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|  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)
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|  But we did find the Bierfest!
 |  At the bottom of the castle moat!
 |  Cool...
 |  Well, if ya gotta be stranded somewhere...
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|  Angus beef, carved off of a spit
 |  SO good!
 |  Bier in the moat
 |  Return your stein to get your $2 deposit back
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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
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|  Teeny, tiny elevator
 |  Apartment Foyer
 |  Our way cool Art Deco apt. building
 |  Old Town Square
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|  Jan Hus Memorial and Tyn Church
 |  Italian Dance & Music troupe - the musicians
 |  The dancers
 |  St. Nicholas Church on Old Town Square
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|  Buildings lining the squre
 |  Astronomical Clock
 |  Nesting dolls
 |  View of Mala Strana, St. Vitus Cathedral and Castle complex from Charles Bridge
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|  Charles Bridge musicians - some great old-timey jazz
 |  Sounded real Parisian actually...
 |  Charles Bridge statue
 |  'nother bridge musician
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|  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!
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|  Neat spiderweb art in the courtyard.
 |  Charles Bridge Tower
 |  Our laundry drying on the line - much to Joe's horror!
 |  Charles Bridge
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|  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
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|  A performance venue
 |  One wall is a giant drip castle!
 |  Strahov Monastery - the old, abandoned part
 |  Basilica of Our Lady at the Strahov Monastery
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|  Entrance of the Basilica
 |  Beer from the monastery brewery!
 |  Yum - sausage and potato dumplings
 |  A real live monk!
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|  Outside of the Basilica of Our Lady
 |  the green, green grass of the monastery lawn
 |  Cafeteria Sign
 |  Bought some of these wee prints
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|  Overlooking Prague
 |  View towards St. Vitus Cathedral
 |  View towards Charles Bridge
 |  View including monastery vinyard
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|  Random beautiful artwork
 |  Prague has fun street signs
 |  Loreto Church Bell Tower - tinkly bells are famous
 |  Loreto Church - Prague
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|  Joe's having a hard time with the guide bag!
 |  Well-read guy
 |  Another fun sign
 |  Beautiful lampost
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|  Prague rooftops at sunset
 |  St. Nicholas Church
 |  Rooftops below the monastery
 |  us'n
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|  Much needed cappucinos
 |  On the way down from the Palace complex
 |  Wide, shallow stairs - great view
 |  Lovey-dovey shadows
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|  Knights of Malta restaurant
 |  Used to be an apothecary's lab!
 |  Wild poster
 |  Prague art
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|  Heading towards Charles Bridge
 |  My Love
 |  Charles Bridge statue
 |  Detail of Statue
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|  Charles Bridge at dusk
 |  Evening Prague View
 |  Sun is setting
 |  View from Charles Bridge
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|  Bridge candid
 |  Charles Bridge Statue
 |  Sunset View
 |  Joe the photojournalist
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|  Jenny on Charles Bridge
 |  Me
 |  Us
 |  Sunset on Charles Bridge - Prague
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|  Sunset View
 |  Neat Building
 |  Tyn church in Old Town Square
 |  Inside St. Nicholas Church
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|  Bambini di Praga - amazing children's chorus concert in St. Nicholas Church
 |  USP Jazz Lounge
 |  St. Vitus Cathedral
 |  St. Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge
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|  In the Subway
 |  Colorful stops
 |  The escalators make me dizzy!
 |  Palace Gardens post-hail
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|  Palace gardens after a huge hailstorm
 |  Wet gardens
 |  AfterTheHailstorm
 |  Steamy view
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|  Hail in the grass
 |  Hail cross-section
 |  Hailstones
 |  Ethereal Palace Gardens
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|  Wet St. Vitus Cathedral
 |  Self-Portraig with St. vitus
 |  Guard entrance to Palace complex
 |  Inside St. Vitus
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|  1st stained glass window to the right
 |  More stained glass
 |  Window above the entrance
 |  Inside St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague
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|  Such pretty windows
 |  Beautiful art
 |  The Mucha Window
 |  Mucha detail
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|  More Mucha
 |  Love the Mucha
 |  Can't get enough of the Mucah
 |  Such colors
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|  Could've stared for hours
 |  View from the belltower
 |  Long way down
 |  Another belltower view
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|  St. Vitus rooster
 |  St. Vitus smooch
 |  More beauty
 |  St.VitusCathedralDetail
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|  Interesting sculpture
 |  More art
 |  St. Vitus roof in one of the chapels
 |  Tomb
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|  St. Vitus being boiled
 |  Tomb
 |  St. Wenceslaus (Good King Wenceslaus!) tomb
 |  Organ Loft
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|  Another pretty window
 |  Outside St. Vitus
 |  St. Vitus
 |  St. Vitus/Palace Courtyard
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|  Neat Statue
 |  On palace grounds
 |  Heading towards Golden Lane
 |  Golden Lane
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|  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
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|  View from the top
 |  Prague rooftops
 |  More rooftops
 |  Prague Cablecars
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|  Prague Jazz Festival
 |  David Sanchez
 |  Love the subway stations
 |  Rainy glow in Prague...
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|  Tyn Church at night
 |  Teren, our resident cat
 |  View from our flat window - Josefov
 |  Marie, our flat landlady
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|  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
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|  Founded in 1478
 |  12 layers; 12,000 gravestones; 100, 000 people...
 |  Street sign
 |  Prague Market
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|  Astronomical Clock in Old Town Square
 |  Jan Hus Memorial
 |  Last Prague meal!
 |  Our flat address
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|  Now we're in Paris!
 |  Neighborhood market under the elevated train tracks
 |  Buying our picnic food
 |  First view of the Eiffel Tower!
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|  Rounding the corner...
 |  Almost there!
 |  So cool...
 |  So huge!
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|  Picnicking in the shadow of la tour Eiffel
 |  Great place to hang out
 |  A cloudy day in Paris
 |  Neat sign
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|  Market on  ******   street
 |  The dwarves caught his eye...
 |  Writing our postcards in a Parisian cafe
 |  Three cafe au laits each
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|  I'm a happy girl
 |  Every cafe had a dog!
 |  The grand view
 |  Ah...the Paris Metro
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|  Pretty view
 |  Walking along the Seine
 |  Houseboats
 |  Art students on the lawn of the Louvre
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|  The Louvre
 |  A set-up for a proposal maybe?
 |  The entrance of the Louvre
 |  Enjoying the sunset after buying our Museum passes
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|  Love these signs!
 |  The fishmarket on our walk from our hotel to the metro
 |  Winged Victory
 |  No flash used!
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|  The Louvre at night...
 |  L'Ostrea - in a building built in the 1700's
 |  Neato appetizer!
 |  Teensy tiny shellfish
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|  L'Ostrea Restaurant
 |  Mona Lisa Chaos
 |  Venus de Milo
 |  A little cafe near the louvre and Moliere's theater
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|  Tiny Vermeer...
 |  Metropolitain entrance
 |  Arc de Triomphe!
 |  On our way to Musee d'Orsay - goofy husband
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|  Fantastical wall in Musee d'Orsay
 |  Very halloween-y
 |  Degas
 |  We stood where he painted this!
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|  View of Montmartre from Musee d'Orsay
 |  Sunset on the Seine
 |  Two honeymooners
 |  Our night-time Seine cruise
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|  So of course all the pictures are blurry...
 |  Joe and the Eiffel Tower
 |  La Tour Eiffel...yes, blurry, I know
 |  Orsay from the outside
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|  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
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|  Perusing the next day's possibilities
 |  Sugar & butter crepe - Heaven on a plate!
 |  The creperie
 |  Neatest metro tile ever!
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|  Giant seek-n-find
 |  A church down the street from our hotel
 |  Patisserie delights
 |  Our wrapped up croissants and pain au chocolat to go
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|  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...
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|  Boules in the park
 |  Bought some cherries from a fruit stand along the way
 |  It's Eiffel Tower day!
 |  La Tour Eiffel
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|  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...
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|  Ah Paris...
 |  A view of our picnic spot from higher up
 |  It was windy up there!
 |  Eiffel Tower - home for decrepit pigeons
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|  Montmartre Metro stop
 |  Vincent & Theo Van Gogh lived here!
 |  This is the building...
 |  This is the door...
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|  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.
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|  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
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|  Inside...sneaky picture...
 |  I love the candles in Catholic churches
 |  Place du Tertre
 |  Yup
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|  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
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|  Neat shop
 |  Lapin Agile
 |  The famous rabbit
 |  Montmartre at night
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|  My goofy husband
 |  Ah - our patisserie the next morning!
 |  More sneaky pictures...
 |  Look at those baguettes!
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|  Joe enjoying his daily morning Feuillete au chocolate
 |  Market at Maubert Mutualite
 |  Been going on since the middle ages!
 |  Fresh seafood
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|  Fresh pigeon!
 |  Olives galore
 |  Stormy Notre Dame
 |  Neat!
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|  One of the oldest trees in Paris
 |  Rosy Notre Dame
 |  Shakespeare and Company!
 |  Hemmingway used to borrow books from here
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|  Cosy nook
 |  Wonderful ambience
 |  Notre Dame
 |  Street vendors
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|  Ah...the Parisian cafe chairs and table
 |  Neat sign
 |  St-Etienne du Mont
 |  Inside the cathedral...
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|  Old city wall of Paris
 |  Self-explanatory
 |  Another apartment of Hemmingway's
 |  The plaque
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|  Neat shop
 |  Tiniest Yorkie ever!
 |  At the top of Rue Mouffetard
 |  Market Mouffetard
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|  oh heaven....a fromagerie
 |  Cheese glorious cheese!
 |  Bought cheese for our picnic here
 |  Lovely little flower shop
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|  FRESH seafood - the crabs were still blinking at me
 |  Le Poisson!
 |  Can't stay away from the cheese!
 |  Lotsa meat here...
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|  Corner fruit stand - bought some clementines for our picnic
 |  The sign says it all
 |  ''nother Rue Mouffetard shop
 |  Best accidental picture ever!
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|  Butcher shop
 |  Rotisserie Chicken - same kind we had for our first Parisian picnic
 |  A wonderful wine shop!
 |  Last market on the street
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|  Pretty storefronts
 |  Painting Notre Dame
 |  So pretty with the drizzly rain clouds behind
 |  Sun is starting to peep through
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|  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
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|  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
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|  Notre Dame
 |  The sun was out with a vengeance
 |  Flower stand a few blocks over from ND
 |  Yet another fantastic Metro entrance
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|  The flower shop
 |  Beautiful flowers
 |  Parisian view
 |  Our picnic on our last day!  Baguette, cheese, champagne...
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|  Cherries, clementines...
 |  View from our picnic park bench
 |  What a wonderful honeymoon...
 |  smooches!
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|  The Seine
 |  Sun is starting to set over the Seine
 |  View of our picnic spot from the bridge - Ile de la Cite
 |  Pretty square
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|  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.
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|  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
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|  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
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|  Waiting in line at Charle de Gaulle
 |  After missing our original flight...
 |  Made it home!  (With only one extra bag!)
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