Long time no add

Well we have made it to Munich. Paris was lovely although we did not strike wonderful weather that seemed to have come just after we left. In Paris we did museums and the usual tourist sites, of which there are too many to even mention, and those are the ones that we went to not the mention the ones we did make it to. One we went to the impressionist museum, we had to wait for about an hour in the rain to even get into, those damn tourists! There Karen was drawn to a bear's bum but in honesty it was more the chance to sit down. The catch cry of the trip has been "my feet hurt".


Alas there this cry wasn't heard so much in Paris as Karen picked up a cold and is only now getting over it, so there were a couple of days that were late starts and early finishes on a exploration of the the sites of gay Paris. The Louvre was definitely a highlight, one feature that made it so was the audio guides. You will see around my neck as I am being educated about the motives of the artist depicting the subject in such and such a light, placement and pose.

We went to the Eiffel on no less than three times, first time is was to cold and wet to even think of going up there, the second was to see the light show at night and then on the final day to actual reach the top. What spectacular views of the city (and smog) you get up there. I would have added a picture of the smog but it has not been reduced in size to aid you the viewer, yet.





Another place we went to was Chateau du Versailles (or something like that) , wow what a place HUGE the palace and gardens. Here is a link just to give you an idea of the size of the gardens, most of what you can see on this map is the grounds of the place.


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This is the place people like Louis XIV & XV hung out. I may be wrong but it where the the quote "why don't they eat cake" came from.