Paris Metro

Metro entrances, stops, and signs:

Paris Panoramas

Photoshop isn't installed on our MacBook, so I wasn't able to put my potential pans together until this week.

The first is obviously Notre Dame, taken on our first day in Paris; we walked by it but didn't go in, since we were planning on returning for Easter.

The second is the row of 28 kings of Judah and Israel, just above Notre Dame's main portals.  The originals were destroyed during the French Revolution.

The view from Sacre Coeur.

Just a very small part of the gardens of Versailles.

The Pompidou Center.

I've already included this once, but I like it.  It's within walking distance of the open air market we went to on Saturday.

And, finally, the courtyard of the Louvre (don't look too closely; it's not a perfect merge).

The Louvre

The courtyard and the pyramid entrance

  and the floor plan.

We visited on Sunday; the crowd was huge.

But, even though we kept getting lost, we saw the things that we were supposed to:  Winged Victory,

the Mona Lisa,

and Venus de Milo.

We spent some time in Italian

and French paintings (here's Napoleon's coronation).

A panorama of one of the rooms.

A dining room in Napoleon's quarters:

Two sculptures of Daphnis & Chloe (these for you, Martha and Chloe):

We finally had to admit that we were museumed out, after seeing probably only a percent or two of the exhibits.

Back in Montparnasse, we found a cafe open, even though it was Easter.