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| Maury Krystel | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> Paris (Spring 2005) | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 Thursday pm - 30,000 feet up - and heading toards France... Mary, Karen and Rita |
 Debra and Trudy |
 Carolyne |
 Friday am - Dragging our suitcases through the airport |
 The front of Hotel des Balcons - our home for the next 5 nights |
 Mary and Deb at the hotel |
 Rita's there, too. |
 Rita and Cheryl (former employee who lives in Germany) |
 Time to unpack |
 Now, that's more comfortable |
 Friday afternoon - Across the Seine River to our first sight |
 The Cathedral of Notre-Dame ( west front entrance ) |
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 The Portal of the Virgin |
 Details of the facade |
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 What I looked like during most of the trip |
 Mimi, Cheryl, Karen and Rita taking a break |
 The interior of the Cathedral |
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 A model of Notre Dame hundreds of years ago |
 The more familiar "rear" view of Notre Dame with its flying buttresses |
 Back over another bridge to the hotel |
 Friday dinner - Cheryl, Debra, Rita, Mary, Karen, Mimi, Carolyne, Trudy |
 Saturday 7 a.m. - The streets were deserted as I searched alone for a restaurant for our breakfast |
 Outside of Sainte-Chapelle |
 Completed in 1248, it is considered to be the most beautiful church in Paris |
 Some of the 50 foot tall stained glass windows |
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 Debi finally found a car her size |
 Built in the 1600's as a palace, the Louvre is the largest museum in the world |
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 The Glass Pyramid entrance |
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 Karen and Cheryl |
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 The Grand Palace |
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 The Arc de Triomphe - most of us walked the stairs to the observation deck on top! |
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 The side of the Arc |
 Taking a needed rest on our 4+ mile hike |
 Our first glimps of the Eiffel Tower |
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 The view from the first level |
 The dome from Hotel des Invalides in the distance |
 Looking down on the Parc du Champ de Mars |
 The view from the top with the Sacre-Coeur in the distance |
 Cheryl and Trudy |
 Mary,Trudy, Carolyne, Karen, Rita and Cheryl |
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 Maury - as usual with camera glued to his face |
 Our stroll through the Parc du Champ de Mars |
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 Walking through the Peace Monument |
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 The Ecole Militaire lies at the foot of the Park |
 Gilded in 1715, the Golden Dome of the Hotel des Invalides is visable over the rooftops |
 A typical cafe |
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 Saturday dinner at a traditional French Restaurant |
 Carolyne and Debi |
 A new day begins in the lobby of our hotel |
 Sunday - A short stop at a bird market before heading out of Paris to Versailles |
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 Approaching the entrance to Versailles |
 Using over 30,000 workmen, in 1661, Louis XIV built the most extravagant palace in Europe |
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 To The Glory of France |
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 We began with a tour of some of the "private"areas of the palace |
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 Debra, Carolyne, Cheryl and Rita looking on |
 Rita and Karen |
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 Leading up to the Opera, built in 1770 |
 It used to take 3,000 candles to illuminate the "stunningly opulent" Opera |
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 Examples of the gorgeous ceilings |
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 One of the many "public" rooms |
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 Karen, Deb, carolyne, Trudy and Cheryl in the Hall of Mirrors |
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 A view from the Palace of the gardens, fountain pool, and rowing lake built below |
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 Deb, Mary and Trudy looking out towards the gardens |
 Carolyne calling home |
 One of our trips on the RER and Metro |
 After returning to Paris, we're off to the Museum d'Orsay |
 Built in 1900 as a train station, the Orsay was converted in 1977 to a striking art museum |
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 A small segment of the Louvre is visable from the observation deck of the Orsay |
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 Rita capturing that perfect photo |
 On the observation deck |
 Sacre-Coeur in the distance |
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 Mimi and Maury |
 Hotel de Ville (City Hall) |
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 Monday morning we walked through the Montmartre neighborhood |
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 Debra and Rita check out the artwork while Mimi and Trudy watch |
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 Enjoying the shops that line the streets in Montmartre |
 Karen checks out Deb's "must have"hat |
 Riding the finicular up/down the steep incline |
 The Sacre-Coeur (Sacred Heart) |
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 Debra, Rita, Trudy and Carolyne |
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 Karen and Maury enjoying the view of the city below |
 Heading towards the Marais, we stopped for lunch across from the Pomidou Centre |
 The entrance to the Pompidou Centre |
 Along the way from Montmartre to the Marais |
 "Hi" from Mary and Debi |
 A weathered shop window in the Marais section ( see the photographer in the reflection!) |
 The Museum of France |
 The Victor Hugo Museum |
 Shops line the narrow streets of the Marais |
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 Dinner at Marco Polo |
 After dinner we took a nightime cruise along the Seine viewing "Paris - the City of Lights" |
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 One of the many bridges that cross the river |
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 The Obilisk at Place de Concorde |
 Museum d'Orsay |
 Many buildings and monuments are decorated with the Olympic colors |
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 The towers of Notre-Dame |
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 The Flying Buttresses of Notre-Dame |
 All along the river, couples come to watch the boats sail by |
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 The Orsay |
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 The end of the cruise |
 Mimi and Maury |
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 Tuesday we went back to the Marais to the Museum Carnavalet |
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 Karen, Rita, Mary, Debra, Trudy and Carolyne |
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 An artisan restoring the gold-leaf woodwork |
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 The Place des Vosges - Paris's oldest square |
 From the St. Pete Times |
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