England 2009

Paris -- Notre Dame

The famous tower -- and no, I didn't go to the top. This is as close as we got.

The reception room at the Musee d'Orsay

At the top of the Musee d'Orsay with the Louvre Museum in the back (across the Seine).

In the Louvre, Monet's painting of turkeys (for Samuel and Sophie and Jamie).

The pyramid at the Louvre.

Ken studying a Monet's water lillies.

We happen to be here for Bastille Day -- our hotel was three blocks away from the square. Lots of music and people having fun.

We found giant ice cream freezers (hand crank)

Ken tried the ice cream.

This is the front of Monet's house in the little village of Giverny.

A flower garden.

The famous water lilly pond.

England 2009

Hampton Court Palace, King Henry VIII's Tudor palace, from the rose garden.

The old rascal himself

Stained glass in the Great Hall

Hampton Court Palace, the add-on side, William and Mary's Baroque palace.

William and Mary's privy garden.

St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

England 2009

The Charles Darwin house from the back garden.

The Sigmund Freud house from the back garden.

Flower boxes in Oxford.

Oxford

Oxford

Oxford

Oxford Botanical Garden.

Oxford Botanical Garden.

Oxford Botanical Garden.

Oxford