Saturday, July 14, 2012

Bunch Of Pics For Bastille Day

Notre Dame, Paris
Here's a bonanza of pictures I took over the years around France in honor of Bastille Day today. Wish the photos of some other places not included here (Chartres, Carcassonne, Eiffel Tower, Lourdes grotto, Poitiers) had turned out better to give more variety--but c'est la vie. Bonne Bastille!

Notre Dame

Exterior of Notre Dame

More exterior, Notre Dame Cathedral

Versailles, statue of Louis XIV

Versailles gardens

Sculpture in gardens of Versailles
Beautiful Versailles gardens and fountains

Marie-Antoinette's "peasant village" at Versailles

Street in St-Jean-Pied-de-Port in southern France

St-Jean-Pied-de-Port, village of the Camino de Santiago

House in St-Jean-Pied-de-Port

Ancient walls of old section of St-Jean-Pied-de-Port

In Bayonne, Basque country

The famous Shakespeare & Co bookstore in Paris

The River Seine and Eiffel Tower in distance

The Louvre

Sacre Coeur cathedral, Montmartre, Paris

Graves of fallen warriors, Normandy

American Cemetery, Normandy

Omaha Beach today, Normandy

Oradour-sur-Glane, site of WWII massacre, June 10, 1944

Oradour-sur-Glane

Dying sunflowers, La Groie, near Poitiers


Late summer field in La Groie

Freshly cut field in La Groie, near Poitiers

My feet in the Mediterranean, Marseille

One of the Frioul islands, off Marseille

Marseille

Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde, Marseille

Pieta in front of Basilica, Marseille

Prado beach, Marseille

Lion at the train station in Marseille

Lion in Paris

At the Arc de Triomphe, Paris

St. Michael, Paris

St-Michel, Paris

The Louvre

Inside the courtyard of the Louvre

Moulin Rouge (and me) in Montmarte, Paris

Lourdes

Detail of church in Lourdes

View of Pyrenees at Lourdes

Sunrise in the Pyrenees, on the Camino

Sunrise on the Camino de Santiago, near St-Jean

The Virgin of Orisson, on the Camino

Fountain at Orisson refuge in the Pyrenees

View from Orisson refuge, on the Camino

Paris, bridge over the Seine

Paris street at sunset

Home in La Groie, near Poitiers

Me  and Jeanne d'Arc, at Compiègne

Me and a bold homme, Tuileries, Paris