Some views from the Domaine National du Palais Royal, one of Paris’s many formerly-royal compounds that’s currently home to the Ministry of Culture, the Conseil d’Etat and the Constitutional Council. After all, when you’ve had a few revolutions and are on your fifth republic, naturally the buildings have been repurposed a time or two… 🙂
Took these looking north as our bus wended from Visp up to Täsch, where we got the narrow-gauge train on to Zermatt. Those mountains are on the southern side of the valley of the Rhone, which yes, is the river that drains Zermatt and then feeds that lovely lake I’ve shown you before in post from or en route to Geneva :-).
As I mentioned yesterday, I was heading to Switzerland from Paris. This is me today in Switzerland … in mid-air on a suspension bridge. Looking directly down from said bridge, you’d see what I show you next. Thereafter, a few more scenic shots all from mid-air on that bridge :-). The village in the valley is Zermatt, my home for a few more nights this week. Some of you may be able to deduce what this means you’re likely to see next…
Notre Dame of course sits on Ile de la Cite, with Ile St Louis nested upstream and next to it. You can just see St Louis’s tip in the photo at the bottom, to the left. Why oh why did it take me more than three years of living in Amsterdam to finally just hop on the train down here? I’d forgotten how much I love this city.
Yes, we’ve made it back to the City of Light for the first time in — wait for it — fourteen years. Today I’m heading on towards Switzerland after three days of getting reacquainted with this unique city in which I spent a fair amount of time between 2005 and 2010. These are all from an evening walk along both banks of the Seine and around the Marais on my first evening, last Saturday.
A variety of photos taken around town as I followed one of the pride walks / marches. I walked in the other with friends from work; photographed this one around town; and then observed and photographed the boat parade, which we’ve already shown you in great detail :-). And herewith video, for those of you with sufficient bandwith:
Amsterdam-Rhein Canal (Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal in NL), within city limits but fairly parklike on both banks where it passes through the city. It meets up with the Waal about 20 kilometers west of Nijmegen, of which I showed you a fair bit back in 2022.
Notre Dame of course sits on Ile de la Cite, with Ile St Louis nested upstream and next to it. You can just see St Louis’s tip in the photo at the bottom, to the left. Why oh why did it take me more than three years of living in Amsterdam to finally just hop on the train down here? I’d forgotten how much I love this city.
Yes, we’ve made it back to the City of Light for the first time in — wait for it — fourteen years. Today I’m heading on towards Switzerland after three days of getting reacquainted with this unique city in which I spent a fair amount of time between 2005 and 2010. These are all from an evening walk along both banks of the Seine and around the Marais on my first evening, last Saturday.
(so much world, so little time....) 