After an overnight with our friend Pauline, we went to France by train.

Waterloo Station where we got the Eurostar Channel Tunnel train to Paris

The seats on the Eurostar are MUCH more roomy and comfortable than the airplanes. I would recommend this for any trip between London and Paris.

Eurostar Locomotive

A village in the French Alps

This is the view from our bedroom in the chalet. It was a beautiful thing to wake up to in the mornings.

We hiked about 5 kilometers on our first day at Nevache.

A waterfall on the hike

More of the Alps

Emmanuel and Nicole have a 250 year old chalet

The water at the chalet is not drinkable, so we got it in the village

One evening we caught the moon rising. You may see the foreground lightly lit in this photo.

Another hike but this one started up farther into the canyon

Bill and Pat on the hike

These next set of photos were taken at the Louvre in Paris. This is one of the worlds best collections of art.

Venus De Milo

Diana the Huntress

Winged Victory is the emblem or symbol for the Louvre.

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is probably the best known of all the art works.

Pat's favorites are those painted by Georges de la Tour. Notice the illumination by candle.

France

In Paris we stayed at the Campanile Hotel in the Levallois-Perret quarter. The room was small, but had a comfortable bed. The price of the room did not included breakfast. For a French hotel, this was very reasonable in price. The company has many hotels around Europe. It is a short two block walk to a Metro station and we could get around Paris very easily.

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