VERSAILLES-SUN KING'S PALACE, France

Marie Antoinette & her children. Queen of France & Navarre

VERSAILLES-SUN KING'S PALACE

GARDENS OF VERSAILLES PALACE

GARDENS OF VERSAILLES PALACE

Versailles magnificent huge terraced gardens with their fountains and statues.

Unfortunately the fountains were'nt turned on until after we were inside of the

Palace. Shucks! I love fountains!!

A bit windy up on the hill! It was cooler & prettier out here no wonder the King wanted

to build a Palace out here. Beyond the gardens is 500 acres of forest used for hunting.

And what's pretty exciting now is that we heard right after our return home from France,

that a Temple for our church is to be built close to this area of Versailles!

VERSAILLES-SUN KING'S PALACE

Historic Verailles is the beautiful, restored palace of Louis XIV, the Sun King.

What started as a modest hunting lodge was expanded into the world's most famous palace,

a model for the future European Palaces.

PARIS, FRANCE

PARIS, FRANCE

The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of the" City of Light!"! I was just not expecting it
to be so huge! I was totally WOWED!! We only went to the second floor, but what a total
AWESOME view!!!


A miniture Statue of Liberty in the forground that the U.S. gave to France.

The tunnel where Princess Diana was in the car accident is not to far from
here & we drove through it several times.

We took a River Seine Cruise but were a bit disappointed & pretty glad to get off the boat since Paris was seized by an early heat wave! To hot! Glad to get up on the Eiffel Tower & a breeze. If you go, do it in May!!

Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orleans" is considered a national heroine of France & a

Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the army to several important victories during the Hundred Years War, which paved the way for

the coronation of Charles VII.

PARIS, FRANCE

Jardin de Tuileries is an Italian-style park marked by the influence of the Medicis family,

& was once the backyard of the royalty. We lunched at a little outdoor sandwich shop here &

found another little shop where we watched them make huge crepes & relished our

pick of strawberry! Yum!

Monument of Queen Marie Antoinette.

The Champs-Elysees & the Arc de Triomphe, which commemorates Napoleon's victories.

I was impressed with how wide this street is compared with the small streets in London & Rome.

PARIS, FRANCE

The Place de la Concorde, the largest square in Paris, connects the Tuileries with the Champs-Elysees. At it's center is a 32oo years old obelisk transported in the 19th Century from Egypt.

The Notre Dame de Paris is one of the first Gothic Cathedrals ever built. Construction

started in 1163 & lasted almost two decades.

This is the backside of the Cathedral.

PARIS, FRANCE

The guide pointed out where we could find Quasimodo on the Cathedral.
I would never have found it without that help!

Bridge on the River Seine

The famous Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France

Beautiful Lake Geneva on the Switzerland & France Border.