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Water tower in Montmartre.
The basilica Sacre Coeur in Montmartre.
Paris metro station signs were designed by someone important (as nearly everything in Paris is).
Mouin Rouge, the famous Varieté/night show thingy. We weren’t dressed appropriately so we didn’t try to go in.
Evening sky over Paris. Tour Montparnasse is visible in the distance.
Napoleon’s remains.
"The Thinker" by Rodin.
One of the few things not robbed from somewhere, this obelisk was presented to France by Egypt.
A goat enjoys the lawn in Jardin de Tuileries.
Monumental buildings with no obvious purpose can be found everywhere in the city.
Paintings over paintings...
The famous glass pyramid in front of the louvre.
In Versailles, there was an exhibition of portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. This item is made from plastic forks and spoons.
In the Hall of Mirrors.
"Marilyn", made from pots.
An item from Joana’s "Valkyries" series.
View of the castle gargens.
View of the castle from the garden.
More gardens.
Some queen’s bedroom in the Grand Trianon, a separate palace building where the queens and other women were housed.
Gallery of paintings in the Grand Trianon
Marie Antoinette had her own little farmer’s village built in the castle gardens. This is the fishing lage with Marlborough tower.
And Marie Antoinette’s house in the village.
In Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny.
Pink flower
Another pink flower.
In front of Monet’s house
View of the garden from the house.
The famous water lily pond,
where the quiet water surface creates perfect mirror images of the surrounding trees.
Another pink flower.
The cathedral of Vernon, close to Giverny.
Sacre Coeur by night, from the window of our hostel room.
Tour Eiffel.
La Defense, the modern financial quarter, seen from the Eiffel tower.
Yes, we did walk up and down the stairs, vertigo or no!
I see a rhinoceros!
Enjoying "The de Lord" (Earl Grey) in the Café in the Musée d’Orsay.
Quai des Orfèvres 36, workplace of Commissaire Maigret.
Stained glass window in Notre Dame de Paris
Paris town hall.
Fountain on the Place de la Concorde.
Arc de Triomphe.
Spiral staircase inside the Arc de Triomphe.
Famous escalators outside Centre Georges Pompidou.
Saint-Etienne-du-Mont.
Foucault’s Pendulum in the Pantheon.
Notre Dame du Paris’ backside.
Codex Hammurabi: laws written down by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, around 1772 BC.
It was really difficult to get a picture of this horse without any tourists posing next to it - it’s 5 to 6 metres long and there are tourists EVERYWHERE in the Louvre.
The Parc des Buttes Chaumont was created for one of the world exhibitions held in Paris (there must have been many of them, because there are many funny creations all over town which were all made for different world exhibitions).
I’d say, both a bird and a builder were very unhappy about what happened here.

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