I didn't have a digital camera back then, so plenty of my pics turned out crappy without me knowing about it. You can probably make out the Eiffel Tower in the background. Bad as this pic is, it's the only shot of the Eiffel Tower with me in it
My '01 trip with my university scholars group was a memorable one. We stayed in France for 6 nights, 5 of them in Paris, 1 in Caen (Normandy). Apart from the major sites in Paris, we had a 2-day excursion to the Normandy Landing Beaches and the Mont Saint-Michel seaside monastery.
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I didn't have a digital camera back then, so plenty of my pics turned out crappy without me knowing about it. You can probably make out the Eiffel Tower in the background. Bad as this pic is, it's the only shot of the Eiffel Tower with me in it |
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Now those shots are a lot better, but only 'cause I'm not in them :-)
The white dots you see are the hundreds of powerful sparkling lights that illuminate the tower at hourly intervals at night |
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Arc de Triomphe |
The Louvre Museum (where Mona Lisa is shown), that's I.M. Pei's glass pyramid you see |
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Here's the shore of Omaha Beach ("Bloody Omaha") where US soldiers landed on D-Day (June 6, 1944) to liberate France from the Nazis |
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Left: the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach, Normandy, where over 9,000 soldiers are buried on officially American soil. Right: A cross that bears the inscription: HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY A COMRADE IN ARMS KNOWN BUT TO GOD
Now here's a pic you don't see every day: This is what the Seine river looks like after a heavy rainstorm upstream of Paris. The roadway on the near side of the railing has been totally flooded. Look how high the water level is at the bridge in the background - normally boats can easily pass under those arcs. The turreted building on the right is the Conciergerie on "City Island" - it's where Queen Marie Antoinette was locked up before she went to the Guillotine in 1793
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