Parents come to France Part 1: Paris

Not a lot of people pictures here- those are on the other camera, so I'll get to them later.


The beautiful Galaries Lafayette building Vivas raved about all semester. I dragged my parents around and we finally found it!


Lunch at Laduree. yum yum




The Grand Trianon at Versailles


More...


And some flowers finally. They're a little sparse at Versaille.


And on to the queen's Hamlet. I wouldn't mind having my own little village on my property either I suppose...




Walking over Pont Neuf to go take a vedette



Sun dial at the Musee du Moyen Age


Sacre Coeur at night while some girl was singing Lemon Tree on the steps. Not bad.


Moulin Rouge. I only took the one picture this time


And on to Giverny


Monet's garden. Not so impressive... but it was his garden



Another impressionist


The water lily pond


And lastly one of many many pink rose bushes.

Dordogne:

Couldn't take pictures of the cave paintings, so here are some gardens of Dordogne:

View of the town from the Jardin de l'Imaginaire


Some shrooms



That was fun to walk through. Otherwise the garden was not the greatest because you could only get in with a tour.


One of the only flowers that was still in bloom


Manoir d'Erignac:

Entrevaux

We stopped at a random medeival town on our way to Nice

The Riviera
Not the best weather, but nice for city-hopping. More people pictures when I steal the other camera...

On the shores of Nice


And on to Monaco

I think I need a yacht



Antibes kitty!


And blending in with the parking garage

Carcassonne

Mme Carcas at the entrance of Carcassonne (if you don't know the story, refer to Rick Steves)


That castle where they filmed Robin Hood! (Prince of Thieves)


Inside...


That guy would not get out of my picture



This was on our way driving over an hour in what we thought was the right direction...


An old fashioned moulin


HUGE BEES


Four old castles. Not much left of them


During the hike


New-fashioned moulins next to a nice little lake


Carcassonne at night


Talk about fortressed


Carcassonne kitty!