Taken: 02.19.05 |
Location: Paris, France |
This is a huge and famous cemetary that we randomly happened upon. Lots of famous people are buried here including Jim Morrison and Chopin. |
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The huge Louvre art museum. We spent Friday evening checking it out and hardly even got through much of it. |
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This is more of the Louvre building. |
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The Louvre entrance starting to light up. |
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Here is the Mona Lisa. I guess it was cool for its fame, but I find the painting itself so incredibly boring. And it was a lot smaller than I had expected. |
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We went in an Egyptian artifacts exhibit that was really awesome and had all sorts of stuff. |
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We got outside and the Eiffel Tower was lighting itself up. Every hour it would flash a ton of strobe lights and have a spotlight circle the top of it for about 10 minutes. It was sweet! |
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Here is the Louvre all lit up at night. |
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The next day we visited Notre Dame. It was very neat! |
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The inside of Notre Dame was pretty spectacular also. |
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It had a ton of sweet stained glass windows. |
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This is Notre Dame once more. I really thought that it was a sweet church. |
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Here is a huge monument where the Bastille used to be. We thought that the Bstille was still around here somewhere so we searched and searched, but then determined that it was just a monument. :-( |
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Then we saw the Arch of Triumph. Here's Liz in front of it. |
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The traffic around the arch was ridiculous. |
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Later, I found Mr. Bean's car! |
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Then we headed towards the Eiffel tower. Here's Liz and the Eiffel. |
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The Eiffel was really huge. I mean very huge. :) |
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We walked up to the first level of the Eiffel and got some sweet pictures with the sun playing on the clouds over Paris. :) |
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Some more of Paris. The city is just huge. You can't see the ends of it from the Eiffel. |
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Here's the big area in front of the Eiffel. |
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And then there's a huge palace/museum on the other side of the Eiffel. |
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From the second level, this is all that remained to get to the top. We took an elevator up from here. |
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Finally at the top we got to see just how incredibly huge Paris really is. |
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It was just the perfect time of day too with just enough sun left, but just dark enough to see the beautiful city lights. :-D |
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The palace was getting all lit up also. |
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I believe that this is the coolest picture I've ever taken. :P |
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The Eiffel all lit up in it's glory. |
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At the hour it performed its show for us one last time. :) |
Monday, February 21
Paris, France
Bellinzona, Switzerland
Taken: 02.12.05 |
Location: Bellinzona, Switzerland |
Li and I took a day trip to this small town to check it out and its castles. The streets were all decorated and very pretty and lively. |
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The main attraction of Bellinzona is its three castles. The main one is just kinda chillin in the town. |
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This is a view from atop the main castle. This town of Bellinzona is below. |
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The town and castle are surrounded by beautiful Alps. It's a really nice place to visit. :-) |
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This is what the top of the castle area looks like. Just fields of grass and castle walls. |
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This is the second castle that makes its way up a small mountain. We didn't have time to go to this castle. |
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The third castle is up a lot higher on the mountain and we definitley didn't get there. |
Florence, Italy
Taken: 02.10.05 |
Location: Florence, Italy |
This is the city of Florence. It was a really pretty city. |
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Another view of the city and the big church in Florence. |
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Liz and I in front of Florence. |
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This is how many of the streets looked. They were packed with street vendors selling all kinds of stuff. |
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This is the huge church in Florence. Very colorful also. |
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Another view of the front of the church. |
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One more. :) |
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A whole bunch of girlies from our group being weird. :P |
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I really liked this building a lot. Looked somewhat like a castle. |
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This is a fake statue of David. We did get to see the real statue of David later on but pictures weren't allowed. :-( It was indeed awesome though. :-) |
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I thought this statue was pretty crazy and rather violent. |
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A cool street. The famous Uffizi art gallery is on the left. |
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This is the coolest bridge ever. It has houses and shops attached to it. |
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The river in Florence. It was quite purdy there. :) |
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Some guy biking. Riding bikes is a big form of transport in Florence. |
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Here is the cool bridge again and the river and the city and such. Very pretty. I took this from inside the Uffizi museum. |
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I also took this inside the museum. It was just way too amusing to me. I was wondering if I was allowed to breathe the air. |
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Later on, Liz and I locked ourselves to a monument where lots of people had locked themselves as well. |
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Yep, this is similar to what we did in Verona. |
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Now we're locked in Florence for a long time. |
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I don't mind too much. :-) |