Paris and Venice Vacation

TRIP TO PARIS AND VENICE - OCTOBER 2011

Jeff and I did a 10 day trip to Paris and Venice this last October. Some of the highlights were to see the Queen's Hamlet at the Versailles. We have been there before but never made it to the Hamlet. What an adorable place. The other highlight was to go and see Monet's Giverney. Absolutely lovely. Worth the day trip there.

Paris

Notre Dame

Sainte Chapelle

Eiffel Tower

We walked up to the second level all 668 steps.

View from top of the L'Arc de Triomphe

At the Louvre

Rodin's "Thinker"

View from the Eiffel Tower's 2nd level

Monet's Waterlilies at the Musee de L'Orangerie

Monet's Waterlilies at the Musee de L'Orangerie

Napoleon's Tomb

The Seine

Trip to Giverney

Japanese Bridge

Monet's House

Monet's Garden

Monet's Garden

Monet's Garden

Monet's Garden

Monet's Garden

Monet's water-garden

Monet's House from the street, bedroom window

A street in Giverney

Claude Monet

Versailles

Arriving to the Palace of Versailles

King's Bedroom

Royal Dining Room

Versailles Gardens

Queen's Hamlet

Queen's Hamlet

Queen's Hamlet

Queen's Hamlet

 Venice

Our hotel, "Hotel Panorama" on Lido Island

A street & canal on Lido Island

Sunset on Lido from our hotel, Venice on the background

Venice, a gondola stop

Rialto Bridge

Grand Canal

Venice

Murano Island, grand master at work
 

Gondola shaped ice-cream stand

 

Wider street

Narrower street

The streets are getting really narrow

Venice, lets see how many tourists we can stuff on a gondola