Here are some photos from our trip to France in June of 2010.
The courtyard of École Normale Supérieure
One of many lovely sculptures in Luxembourg Garden
The clock of Luxembourg Palace
Just before I pushed her in (just kidding)
A sculpture in the middle of the fountain
St. Severin
Sisters Kamenovi enjoying a French dinner
Jason and Ljudmila in front of Notre Dame
The gates of the cour d'honneur of Palais de Justice
St. Jacques
The clock of St. Paul
Arcades at Place des Vosges
Jason just bought train tickets at Gare de Lyon
Ljudmila and Elia taming a mammoth
The last stegosaurus
Jason keeping Ljudmila warm at the Jardin des Plantes
Lovely Ljudmila in front of the Louvre
Ljudmila in Jardin des Tuileries
Posing in front of a Monet painting in Musée de l'Orangerie
I didn't know Ernö Rubik was an architect
The architect didn't know what to do with the left-over glass
Arc de Triomphe
Jason, Ljudmila and Elia enjoying their hot drinks in a cafe on
Champs-Élysées
A local artist painting Église du Val-de-Grâce
Dedicated Ljudmila playing Bridge on candles since we lost electricity
Grande Mosquée de Paris
Oriental lantern
Ljudmila, Lauren and Denis at the Restaurant de la Mosquée
Jason and Ljudmila tempted by the oriental pastry tray
Doesn't this remind you of Calder's sculpture in front of MIT ?
Ljudmila in front of the Fontaine Lavalette
Hôtel Lesdiguieres, Grenoble's former city hall
Collégiale St. André
A colorful pedestrian square in Grenoble
A collection of coats of arms on the wall of the Palace of the Parliament
of Dauphine
Place aux Herbes market
Jason in front of the Fountain of the Three Orders
Grenoble's Notre Dame Cathedral
Ljudmila on the pedestrian Bridge on the Isere river
Brave Ljudmila helping the lion defeat the snake
Jason on top of the world
Jason proves he is not afraid of heights
The cable cars come to take us downtown
A wall mural in Paris
Ljudmila in front of Saint-Michel Fountain
Close up of Notre Dame Cathedral
Love locks on Pont de l'Archevêché
A pretty mural about a boulangerie
Jason in front of the Pantheon
Ornate sculptures in the Pantheon
Fluted columns in the Pantheon
Space invaders are attacking Paris streets!
A flowery courtyard
The house just outside our apartment window
One of many bike parking lots we saw!
Stained glass window in Notre Dame
A lighted chandelier in front of another stained glass window
Somebody managed to build an enormous glass box all around Notre
Dame Cathedral!
When the chandelier fell in the first act of "The Phantom of the Opera",
this is where they brought it
There was a line of tourists waiting to take pictures here
All day long, this devil gazes at the Eiffel Tower
Ljudmila pets the gargoyles
You can only see this roof garden from the top of Notre Dame Cathedral
The east view of Paris
We had to climb about 400 steps up to the top. Then we had to
climb back down (apparently there are no waterslides at the top of the
cathedral)
Considering our journey of the thousand steps
I had to take this photo THREE TIMES to get it right
Martine Kellet hosted a marvelous dinner in Paris (photo courtesy
of Ann Borgschulte)
Ann snaps the dinner party: Martine, Jason, Suzy, Tim and Ljudmila