Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Thursday in Paris

(This blog read backwards in time.)

Go to bottom and work back up....


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Notre Dame. Very Famous!!

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Lots of construction projects in Paris. Replacing old wiring.

04579 The best Fallafel’s in the Jewish section of town. Great lunch!

04578 Nice Museum

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Some guy performing over a bridge. Everyone has a way to make money.

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Austin at dinner after his Paris shopping spree with Julia

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Wednesday in Paris

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Beautiful Museum.  Was once a train station.

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Very  hot day at Jardin des Tuileries

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Being a ‘tourist’ at Place de la Concorde

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Harvey meets  Winston Churchill

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A secret from a fish?

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Picnic at base of Eifel tower. It was Hot..04412 04472 04467 04482 How the elevators work.04502 Top of Paris. 04518 04523

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Neat engineering.  Looking up the tower.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Tuesday: from Switzerland to Paris

We left our cozy room in Wilderswil to get a train to Basel, then to Paris (TGV).

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We wanted to get the overview of the city, so we took a boat down the Seine. And saw all the sights.04249

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Then we had dinner at a little side-street place in the Latin Quarter.04337 04317

Monday, August 17, 2009

Monday: Grindelwald, hike

We took a train up to Grindelwald. We’d been there before, but only momentarily as we changed trains to get up to Jungfrau. Today we took a ski lift from there up to First for a hike.
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Saw lots of flowers…
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And cows. Lots of cows (and some bulls also). All had cowbells, making the hills ring softly.
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The highlight and destination was a lake. But when we got there, we were tired… 04164  04169
We went back down and had our cheapest dinner the whole trip: $10 burritos.
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Then back to the hotel.
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Sunday: Top of Europe

Up early-ish this morning for a train ride -- or several -- to the "Top of Europe": Jungfraujoch. Amazing views even just on the way up and down.

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Ice cave inside the glacier!

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And here we are, on top of Europe. (Well, mostly.)

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A stitched panorama from Jungfraujoch.

 

 

Quite a big temperature difference between even Kleine Scheidegg (the stop-before-the-top) and the summit – 30 degrees F in the sun. In August. So we went sledding.


 descending towards Wengen?

 
Then down the mountain, stopping at Lauterbrunnen to see a beautiful waterfall and eat fondue and Rösti.Lauterbrunen and Staubbach Falls

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