1	Paris & Provence A discovery of beauty
2	Paris has much to offer the visitor: There are interesting streets and markets, world-class museums, famous cathedrals and churches, the Seine, and—of course—the Eiffel Tower. We begin with street scenes.
3	Our Paris neighborhood
4	The Dogs of Paris – A Continuing Saga
5	One evening we had dinner at Les Deux Magots in the Latin Quarter, where Hemingway and other famous writers used to hang out.
6	We watched men playing boules in the park,
7	had coffee in the Tuilleries Garden,
8	and strolled within sight of Place Concorde
9	Typical Paris street
10	Not-so-typical Parisians
11	Clever shop window
12	Montmartre street
13	Our Lunch spot in Montmartre
14	World-wide problem
15	Flower markets near Notre Dame
16	Flower Market
17	Rue de Grenelle Market
18	Where you can buy paella for a crowd
19	Beautiful desserts
20	And flowers
21	Did you remember the dog treats?
22	The museums of Paris cover art through the ages. We begin with the Louvre.
23	The Famous Pyramid
24	Below ground, under the pyramid
25	Louvre ceiling detail
26	Another ceiling reflected in gilded mirror
27	Da Vinci’s Virgin, Child and St. Anne
28	Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa
29	The Birth of Venus
30	Artists are allowed to copy the paintings in the museums.
31	Artist at Work
32	Next along the time continuum are the Musee d’Orsay, home of impressionist art, and L’Orangerie, a virtual shrine to Monet.
33	Le Musee d’Orsay, in an old train station
34	Van Gogh’s Starry Night
35	Van Gogh’s Mid Day
36	Monet’s red poppies
37	Monet’s famous water lilies at the Orsay
38	And Monet in grand scale at Musee L’Orangerie, built to house the huge paintings he created as he was going blind
39	Detail of large painting showing seam between panels
40	And for the lover of modern art, the controversial inside-out structure of the Musee Pompidou. . .
41	The Modernistic Pompidou
42	Inside the outside escalator
43	Matisse
44	Picasso
45	Pompidou’s terrace cafe
46	Stravinsky fountains outside Pompidou Museum
47	Paris is full of churches and cathedrals. We were in more churches in one week than we’ve been in in the last 10 years.
48	Notre Dame Cathedral
49	Notre Dame Cathedral (rear view)
50	Alter inside Notre Dame
51	Sacre Coeur Church in the distance, atop a hill
52	Sacre Coeur
53	The Turrets of Sacre Coeur
54	Famous view of Paris from Sacre Coeur
55	The incomparable Sainte-Chapelle
56	The entire story of Christianity is told in the stained glass windows
57	The Famous Rose Window
58	Along The Seine
59	Pont Alexandre III with the Dome of Invalides in the Background
60	Jim Ponders His Existence
61	Tour Boats Break the Reverie
62	But the inescapable, ever-present, defining icon of Paris has to be the Eiffel Tower, visible from almost everywhere in the city.
63	We Are Here
64	View of Eiffel Tower from our room at dusk
65	And in the fog
66	And as darkness fell one evening and the lights came on
67	Click on the image for a movie of the tower blinking.
68	At the top of each hour, millions of twinkling lights come on for 10 minutes
69	View from Trocadero Gardens
70	And the view of Trocadero Gardens to the west, from the Eiffel Tower’s 2^nd level
71	Off the east side: Champs de Mar Park, with the Ecole Militaire at the far end.
72	Looking south down the Seine
73	Looking north, past the Quai Branley Museum (red bldg with odd shape)
74	Evening light on Paris and reflecting off the dome over Hotel Invalides and Napoleon’s tomb
75	We were told that no trip to Paris would be complete without a visit to the Palace of Verseilles.
76	Verseilles hall
77	Ceiling at the Palace of Versailles
78	Statues in the Hall of Mirrors
79	The Gardens
80	The best meal we had in Paris was on our last night, at a small restaurant near our hotel.
81	At the end of our 6 days in Paris, we took the train to Nice, rented a car and drove to Antibes.
82	Map of France
83	Satellite View of The South
84	Paris’s Gare de Lyon train station
85	Where everything was on wheels
86	We traveled through beautiful French farm land
87	Antibes
88	Antibes Market
89	Antibes Market
90	With all types of shoppers
91	Antibes’ waterfront and old fort
92	The nearby hilltop village of Eze
93	With terraced gardens and bronze statues
94	Narrow walks lined with shops and restaurants
95	Laundry drying
96	We were told not to miss the botanical gardens, so up we climbed
97	Views from the gardens at Eze
98	An Old Roman Road is the Model for a New French Road.
99	View of Cove from Eze
100	Nearby Villefranche sur Mer
101	Villa Rothschild and gardens
102	At the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
103	Rose Garden and Statue
104	A drive through the Canyon du Verdon
105	Our Drive Along Country Roads
106	Poppy field along a country road.
107	On to Arles and our hotel . . .
108	. . . whose neighbors include a Roman amphitheater
109	The Roman Arena in Arles
110	and a Roman theater across the street
111	Everyone has shutters and flowers
112	Typical street in Arles’ Old Town
113	The winding narrow streets help explain why Jim was gone for 1 hour trying to find the parking garage, 3 blocks from the hotel. He had to use the GPS to find the hotel again and enlist the help of an employee to finally get to the garage. Here’s his route (we think) . . .
114	Lost on the way to the parking garage. Lucklly I used the GPS to return to the hotel for directions.
115	On to Aix-en-Provence for the market
116	And the scenery
117	The ruins of the castle at Les Baux, near Arles
118	The Old and The Older
119	More Roman ruins-Pont du Gard aquaduct
120	I forgot my sunglasses and had to buy a hat.
121	On to the beautiful town of Rousillon
122	where ochre has been mined for artist pigments
123	Colorful Street in Rousillon
124	Rousillon Cats
125	Rousillon Window
126	Rousillon Door
127	More Rousillon
128	We Really Liked Rousillon
129	Last stop-Nice, with a great waterfront
130	Beautiful buildings
131	The lovely Hotel Durante
132	And lots of cute dogs
133	Speaking of dogs, they were everywhere in every town. We saw dogs of the well-heeled, and dogs of the down-at-the-heels.
134	Dogs on wheels
135	Shopkeepers’ dogs
136	And patient dogs
137	And patient men
138	It’s a slow pace here
139	But mostly we saw beauty everywhere . . .
140	Market Flowers
141	2.5 Euros per kilo
142	Spices
143	Rousillon Roofs
144	Paris at Evening
145	How soon can we go back?