France is for lovers

Top: Famous "Sailor Returning Home" (after WWII) Caen, France..

Bottom: Two Lovers on the Pont Neuf (New Bridge) Paris, France

 

Looking for the white rabbit

This photo was taken on the walk dedicated to Princess Diana

in Kensington Garden, London.

In a long stay in London we took the Hop On Hop Off Bus

to the stop for the Gardens near the Thames.

We strolled through the garden. Did not seem like it was in the city.

At the top end of the garden we visited the famous pet cemetery 

and caught the bus back to our hotel.

A pleasant afternoon.

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ARTHUR'S SEAT : Edinburgh Scotland

Arthur's Seat is a huge hill in Edinburgh.  Most of the year it is green and set aside as a nature area. Lots of hiking. From Holyrood Palace or the Parliament Building you can leave to scale it. This photo shows my granddaughter and friends near the top and, the angle will disclose that I did not make it. Wonderful views, I am told. (A couple of years back due to lack of rain they had a serious fire there.)

 

Norwegian Farm

My photo to be entered in the local art league show: Norwegian Farm.

Color not true on internet.

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Traveling West On The Seine

   Heading West*

This photo was taken on the top deck of a longboat traveling from Paris toward the Atlantic. The Seine is a pretty river with many things to see along the way. Especially nice are the farm houses. It also passes Giverny (Monet's Home and Garden), Caen (memorial to World War II), Rouen (famous clock and cathedral), Bayeux (home of the Bayeux Tapestry now on loan to other museum), Honfleur (gateway to the Normandy Beaches). The * indicates that it is the general direction. but there are many twist and turns,

 

From the parking lot at the causeway leading to Mont St. Michel, France

The parking lot for the island is on dry land. The causeway is a walkway to the actual island though the tidelands. This is a wonderful place and you can tell that by the number of tourists. It is a substantial hike from the base to the church at the peak. When we were there my wife and granddaughter went to the top. I walked the ramparts that circle the island. The visit here is often of people's bucket list.

 

In Defense of Norway (although it doesn't need it)

Very early morning in Norway.

Childish and envious President gets it all wrong again.

Because he did not earn a Nobel Peace Prize awarded by an a-political committee that happens to meet in Norway he calls it a "shithouse" country.

He wasn't knighted in England too. And, Melania is not having a building like the Taj Mahal built in which he can be buried. What does that say of Slovenia and India. Very day it is one unpresidential flap after another.

We have traveled widely, especially in Europe, during both terms of his presidency, and have discovered that people are sad and embarrassed for us. Most do not think the whole of America is a "shithouse" because of him.