Tour of France - Paris - Normandie - Bretagne - Paris July 2013

The trip starts out in Paris for the first few days. The journey to Normandie is on a cruise down the Seine River to Honfleur, by the English (or French, according to our tour guide) Channel. It then just touches the eastern edge of Bretagne with a stay in Saint-Malo before returning to Paris.

Paris

A surprise	La pétite ceinture	View from the Butte de Chaumont towards Sacre Coeur	La Tour Eiffel
View toward Eiffel Tower at sunset from cruise ship	View toward Eiffel Tower from RER C station	Inside the Sainte-Chapelle	Parc André Citroën
Weather ballon at Parc André Citroën. If weather is good (i.e. not windy), can be used as a substitute for Eiffel Tower.	View from Eiffel Tower to the north.	View of Champs de Mars	Fire!
View from Eiffel Towr to the west.

Starting down the Seine.

A lock along the Seine

Visit to Auvers-sur-Oise, where Vincent van Gogh lived his final days.

Vincent van Gogh

Le champs de blé aux corbeaux

van Gogh grave

kilometers to Zundert

Further down the Seine

gull on buoy

Vernon and nearby Giverny where Monet lived.

lilipad pond

Monet grave

Château de Gaillard - Andelys

view up Seine	Château ruins	street in Andelys	fountain in front of Saint-Sauveur
stained glass in Saint-Sauveur

Rouen et environs

Notre Dame cathedral

the horloge

Market square

by the river in evening

Caudebec

on a walk above town

river view from same spot

river view in focus

Hotel del ville

Étretat

view from cliffs

beach view to the west

cliffs to the east

Normandie battlefields

field with poppies

lowered cannon

Honfleur

timbered fronts	timbered church and a place to buy a drink	timbered church wall	reflections in the harbor
ferris wheel reflection at sunset	cruise ship at dusk	sunset with cloud reflections	ferris wheel at sunset

Saint-Malo

view to the north of Saint-Malo wall	pointing to the New World	red timibered house	view from wall
gate in wall

An outing to Dinan

stone house	flower close-up	roses	pink roses
statue of Bertrand du Guesclin	building front in Dinan	lighted candles in church	view downstream
bridge and road towards Saint-Malo