Rue Cler, Basilique du Sacré Cœur, Montmartre, and Geocaching This man patiently helps a woman light a cigarette that he has just given her. You can see Sacré Cœur peeking above the shop rooftops. A photographer and Lydia check out the Basilica. An artist examines the Basilica, which he is sketching. This sculpture adorns a [...]

Cité des Science & de L’industrie, La Tour Montparnasse, Geocaching, and Dinner Anakin’s pod racer from Star Wars, Episode I. Kids have boundless energy… moms don’t. And we were not all the way up, yet… Probably finished up around 210 or 212 meters on the helipad. (About 690 feet.) Our global postioning system (GPS) receiver [...]

Laundry, Marais Walking Tour, and Dinner Rue Cler street sign. A fountain makes for a background behind Lydia. Detail on a fountain in Place des Vosges. Children playing in a park. Um, the mirror makes me look fat. Yeah, that’s it. Grant’s Flickr page Friday, October 21 We ended the previous day with a picnic [...]

Château de Versailles Lydia poses in front of the statue of Louis XIV (the fourteenth,) who built this getaway retreat in the country known as Versailles. Famous hall of mirrors at Versailles. They are restoring about three quarters of this room presently. Louis was into all things Roman. All the Romanesque things here are really [...]

La Défense, Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Élysées, and the Louvre A better indication of the scale of La Grande Arche. That’s Lydia on the steps. The glass elevator riding its futuristic steel frame from the observation deck of La Grande Arche. On this trip, I had my eye out for interesting people shots. I like this [...]

Orsay, Rodin, and Army Museums, River Cruise, Geocache, Notre Dame (a la Nuit) Here is the line at Musée d’Orsay that we did not need to stand in. We had our passes already. Woo hoo! Edouard Manet’s (1832-1883)—shocking at the time—Olympia (1863) Is Lydia thinking about the Thinker? This day, there were more than one [...]

Segway Tour, Hôtel des Invalides Bright and early, Lydia takes in the Eiffel Tower as we wait for our Segway rendezvous. Michelle holds her Segway still (with no hands, the show-off) as she reviews important safety points. The word for “peace” is repeated in 37 or so languages on the glass and pillars at the [...]

Notre Dame, Deportation Memorial, Latin Quarter, Cluny Museum, Pantheon, Sainte-Chapelle, Bird Market, Eiffel Tower Lydia looks out the window of a light rail train on the way to Notre Dame. Front of Notre Dame cathedral, a pretty famous face. Lydia in the medieval streets of the Latin Quarter. Yes, I used this “facility.” It was [...]

Arrival, Hotel, Eiffel Tower, Geocache Lydia standing in front of our hotel, Royal Phare Our first Parisian meal, grilled ham and cheese sandwiches with salad and Chablis (not pictured.) Locals strolling Rue Cler La Tour Eiffel (the Eiffel Tower) stretches up behind some buildings. The Eiffel Tower from nearly underneath it. Grant in front of [...]

Travel Day (Pittsburgh, through Philedelphia to Paris) Welcome to the Pittsburgh International Airport Grant’s Flickr page Read about each day: Day 1: Arrival, Hotel, Eiffel Tower, Geocache Day 2: Notre Dame, Deportation Memorial, Latin Quarter, Cluny Museum, Pantheon, Sainte-Chapelle, Bird Market, Eiffel Tower Day 3: Segway Tour, Hôtel des Invalides Day 4: Orsay, Rodin, and [...]