 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!) |