The Louvre at night (All pictures below taken on April 2008..)
The Louvre at night (All pictures below taken on April 2008..)
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The Seine River.. |
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A typical Parisian street. |
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With Rose and Aaron at the Louvre. |
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The people crowding around the Louvre's most famous art - the Mona Lisa. |
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Venus de Milo - one of the better known sculptures from ancient Greece. |
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Inverted Pyramid at the Louvre. |
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Me at the Louvre at night.. |
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The Tuileries Garden.. |
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Paris City Hall |
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Metro platform.. |
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Bicycles for rent.. |
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Boat houses. |
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The Opera House - setting of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera" |
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Creperie. |
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Crepe with ham for lunch.. |
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The Sacre-Coeur Cathedral. |
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View of Paris from Sacre-Coeur. |
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The sculptures on Pont Alexander - the "prettiest" of the Seine bridges. |
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Institut de France at night.. |
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Inside St. Sulpice Church - made famous by the book and movie "The Da Vinci Code". |
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The "Rose Line" at St. Sulpice that extends to an Egyptian obelisk on the other end. Silas, the ruthless catholic assassin in "The Da Vinci Code" killed a nun to retrieve a keystone hidden beneath this line. |
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Champs Elysses - the city's world famous street. |
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The flowers at Jardin du Luxembourg which is probably the most popular park in Paris. |
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Still at Jardin du Luxembourg. |
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A typical winding cobblestone street in Montmarte - where the world's finest and aspiring artists congregate. |
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Au Lapin Agile - a favorite hang-out of then struggling artists like Renoir and Pablo Picasso. |
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The fruit store in Montmarte that was used as one of the locations in my favorite French film - Amelie. |
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La Maison Rose - another place used to be frequented by famous artists who painted and lived in Montmarte. |
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This neighborhood fish/meat store caught my attention because it's kind of old-fashioned in light of today's supermarkets in big cities. |
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At the esplanade of La Defense - the major business district in Paris. |
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Taken on the Grand Arche - the central structure at La Defense. |
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The Pantheon, the burial place of French "greats" like Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Alexander Dumas, etc.. |
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A unique and amusing urinal in Paris.. |
