Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Bruges, Belgium

Everyone's best friend.

Inside the Catholic Church.


Store windows.


Canal tour.

A view of Bruge from the steeple.


Versailles, The Palace of

I have never seen this much gold paint before, it's everywhere.

Main gate the the palace.

Palace interiors


Painted ceilings



The Grand Ballroom


Rear courtyard

From this point the property extends for 5 miles in all directions

A recent visit to Paris, France.

Napoleon's sarcophagus at Hotel des Invalides in Paris
(Click on any photo to see a larger version)

This is a place we all have been Auguste Rodin's "Gates of Hell" at the Rodin Museum

One of the hundreds of statues along the Siene River. This one and the next one are in front of the Grand Palais


The interior of Notre Dame Cathedral

more of Notre Dame

Service at Notre Dame

Another interior shot of Notre Dame

Pigeon eating the dead blooms in the Latin Quarter

No photographer was harmed in the taking of this photo! I was standing on the center line of the Champs Elysees, 4 lanes of traffic each way, at rush hour, next to an eleven street traffic circle. Yes that is the Arc de Triomphe.

The Eiffel Tower taken from the Trocadero

Arc de Triomphe at night with the traffic buzzing by.