Europe Grand Tour: Paris, France

Ah Paris, no matter how often you visit you will never see it all. "The fellowship" (a name we adopted to refer to our group) spent three fabulous days marveling at Paris's many splendors in true touristic fashion. Although this trip (and the subsequent images) almost mirrors our last excursion to Paris, Amra and I did get to experience some new things. Most notably, we learned to use the RER train sytem, took a boat tour on the river Seine, explored parts of the Louvre we had never seen equipped with media guides, and paid our respects to Jim Morrison at the Père Lachaise cementary. We left Paris with a fresh perspective and many fond memories.

View of Paris from RER Train C

Notre Dame

Pont de l'Archevêché

The Panthéon

Lunch in the Luxembourg Gardens

Eddie takes a lunch break.

Palais du Luxembourg

Louvre

Budo the photographer.

We're so happy to be here!

Coffee break in the Jardins des Tuileries

View of Arc de Triomphe from le Jardin des Tuileries

A fancy water fountain

Arc de Triomphe

Budo and Azra on boat tour

Amra and Eddie

Ah, after walking around so much it felt great to relax.

One of the many views during the boat tour

Narrowest building in Paris

In the Louvre (we splurged on the media guides)

Amra listening to commentary on the Napoleon III Apartments

Napoleon III Apartments

Grave of Chopin

Where Jim Morrison finally broke on through to the other side.

Amra leaving Jim a message

Sacre Coeur

Amra playing on a giant air vent across the street from the Moulin Rouge

Even in Paris we found a little piece of home. :)