Day 13: Les Andelys
Les Andelys is a small village on the Seine, located between Paris and Normandy. It's most famous for
Chateau Gaillard, a medieval castle built by Richard the Lionhearted in the 12th century on a hill overlooking the town. We spent a half a day touring the town and the castle.
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| View of Les Andelys from the boat |
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| Center of the town |
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| Chateau Gaillard, overlooking the town |
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| Hiking up to Chateau Gaillard |
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| View of the Seine from the Chateau |
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| A medieval festival was in progress at the Chateau |
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| View of Les Andelys from the Chateau |
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| A view of the Chateau walls |
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| Back in Andelys at Our Lady's Church |
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| Inside the church |
Day 14: Paris
The boat returned to Le Peq, and we had another day on our own in Paris.
We first took a shuttle from the boat to the Grand Palais in the center of Paris.
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| At the Grand Palais |
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| Parisian art |
We then took the metro to
Place de la Bastille.
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| Monument where the Bastille stood |
We then walked over to the
Marais area, a historic district and the center of Jewish Paris. Our first stop in the Marais was the
Place des Voges, the oldest planned square in Paris, dating from the early 1600's.
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| Place des Voges |
From the Place des Voges, we continued walking around the Marais.
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| A church in the Marais District |
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| Some apartments in the Marais |
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| Holocaust Memorial Plaque |
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| Shopping street in the Marais |
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| A Parisian Lunch |
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| Visiting our friends at the French Communist Party |
From the Marais, we walked to the
Memorial de la Shoah, the French Holocaust Museum. Unfortunately, we couldn't take any pictures inside.
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| Memorial de la Shoah |
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| Memorial plaque on a building across the street |
Next, we walked along the Seine, stopping across the river from the Eiffel Tower.
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| View from across the Seine |
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| Proof that we were there |
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| Memorial to Princess Diana, near the spot where she was killed |
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| This is disgusting |
After eating too much ice cream, we got the shuttle bus back to the ship. After dinner on the ship, we got on another bus for a night-time tour of Paris. Surprisingly, very few buildings were lit up.
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| Arc de Triomphe |
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| Paris Opera |
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| The Louvre |
We ended the evening at the Eiffel Tower.
For 5 minutes every hour at night, they do a light show on the tower (which looks more impressive in a video than a still photo). The blue lights are part of the show.
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| Au revoir, Paris! |
