France and Spain Photo Album!

Because I suddenly have very little to do I thought I might spend hours downloading photos!(sounds like fun:) Together me and Dad have about 6,000 photos from our holiday!!! - but don't worry, I won't subject you to all of these, maybe just a couple of thousand (muahahaha!!)...It is soooooooooo hot today. I was coping okay until I went outside and almost died in 30 seconds. I think I will have to do this in stages (not dying - the photos) Oh and if you click on them they should get bigger. The photos start on the left then zigzag (so the second paragraph is for the first photo on the right) - is that a bit complicated? oh well.

Paris
(L) The Beginning; In the last leg of our plane trip to Paris... by now we had been on the plane for about 20 hours - we look suprisingly happy!

(R) And looking out at the Seine in Paris, from Ile de la Cité. (me and Emma).

(L) A book vending machine in Paris - I love it! Books at every hour!

(R) Ahhhh, the Seine - I have so many hundreds of photos of this river, I love it so much. I don't feel as if I'm in Paris if I can't see the Seine.

(L) Some cool french buskers playing near Notre Dame, there are really good buskers playing everywhere in France and Spain - especially in the metro. We bought a cd off a busker in Barcelona of classical guitar (and flute actually - we didn't realise this until we played it... gave us quite a shock).

(R) DADA! The exhibition wasn't open while I was in Paris:(

(L) My family (- me), I have quite a lot of photos of everyone else in my family as I was always the person taking the photos (damn!)


(R) Me, Laura and Emma on our way up the Eiffel Tower (a veeerrry long way to climb).



(L) The Eiffel Tower (from below) - it's a lot bigger than I thought it would be.

(R) The dodgy souvenir shop that we lived behind. It was so funny to sneak in there and go through a little door in the back to our apartment.

(L) The inside of Notre Dame, very beautiful (and very full of japanese tourists!)

(R) The inside of the Saint Chapelle, with gorgeous stained glass all around and filled with crazily dressed people that looked like spies from a 1950s film - one lady had this camera with an enormous lens, along with huge white boots and white hat.


(L) The cute little second-hand bookstalls that lined the Seine near our apartment.



(R) A family portrait (groan - so embarassing!) in the Paris Opera House - where the Phantom of the Opera lived...

(L) A very elaborate room in the Palais de Versailles - note the very cool secret door concealed behind the wall paper on the left... (I think it was used by Marie-Antoinette to escape the Parisian mobs)


Next time... Normandy and Mont Saint Michel