Paris•Normandy
2018 April
La Tour d’Argent, Louvre, D-Day beaches, Mont St. Michel. These icons of French history all starred in this trip to the hexagon. Check out the Mont St. Michel video to see how I nearly got stranded by the tides.

Rainy night for an arrival in Paris

Apartment Paris - Exterior

Apartment Paris - Stairs

Apartment Paris - Light bulb

Paris VRBO Apartment

Apartment Paris - Flowers

Apartment Paris - Bedroom

Pont Alexander III and Eiffel Tower

Pont Alexander III - Paris

Pont Alexander III detail

Petit Palais blooms

Location Shooting-La Defense-Hollister office

Paris Metro Afternoon

Petis Palais - Northern European Painters Exhibition

Le Comptoir table

Le Comptoir asparagus and pork

Le Comptoir cheese board

Petis Palais - Staircase

Louvre pyramid from the café

Louvre pyramid

Delacroix - Liberty leading the people

Delacroix still life

Messenger Rubens room Louvre

Le Grand fils et filles

La Tour D'Argent entrance

Notre Dame from La Tour D'Argent

Postcard with duck number

La Tour d'Argent Menu

Notre Dame from La Tour D'Argent

Jim Wine List La Tour d'Argent

La Tour d'Argent Duck fillet & caviar, blue lobster tartare, turmeric, radishes salad

La Tour d'Argent - Egg sunny side up, morels, wild garlic sauce, souffleed potatoes with wild herbs

La Tour d'Argent-Roasted with spices duck fillet, spring onions, rhubarb, queen strawberries, crispy scallion, Tellicberry pepper sauce

Jim Cheese Board La Tour d'Argent

La Tour D'Argent cheese board

La Tour d'Argent-My cheese selection

La Tour d'Argent - After dessert coffee

La Tour d'Argent-Soft chocolate bar, milk, caramel, chocolate cream, crispy & frozen peanuts

La Tour D'Argent wine cellar

La Tour D'Argent wine cellar old bottle

Notre Dame at night

Notre Dame at night

Notre Dame at night

Palais de Justice

Place de la Concorde

Hôtel de Crillon
Color Run. CLICK IMAGE FOR VIDEO.

Avant le Comptoir

Avant le Comptoir charcuterie

Avant le Comptoir butter

Bayeux rooftops. One of the first liberated cities in France on D-Day

Bayeux bedroom

Battle of Normandy museum

Battle of Normandy museum

Bayeux tapestry

Battle of Normandy museum

Bayeux lunch

Bayeux cathedral steeple

Bayeux cathedral at night

Bayeux at night

Église Saint-Côme-et-Saint-Damien d'Angoville-au-Plain

German Cemetery

Anti-tank defense

German Cemetery

German Cemetery

D-Day soldier statue

D-Day memorial statue

Utah beach

Café today

Philipe cafe 1944

Philipe cafe

D-Day bunker

D-Day mile 0

Landing craft

Philipe cafe

Église Saint-Côme-et-Saint-Damien d'Angoville-au-Plain

Madonna and Paratroopers-Église Saint-Côme-et-Saint-Damien d'Angoville-au-Plain

Église Saint-Côme-et-Saint-Damien d'Angoville-au-Plain

Parachute caught on the steeple

Bunker

Memorial

Where the bombs dropped

BuBunker - Pointe du Hocnker - Pointe du Hoc

Pointe du Hoc

Pointe du Hoc

Beaches of Normandy

Tour guide Pointe du Hoc

Fallen soldier statue

American Cemetery

Normandy American Cemetery - The Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves

Mont St. Michel-day

Mont St. Michel - Two steering wheel bus

Mont St. Michel - Two steering wheel bus

Mont St. Michel Abbey mass

Mont St. Michel-stonecarver's initial

Mont St. Michel-monastery kitchen

Mont St. Michel-monastery mud flats

Mont St. Michel-crowds

Mont St. Michel-monastery

Mont St. Michel-monastery sand

Mont-St. Michel stone detail

Selfie guy

Mont St. Michel-hotel

View from my room Mont St. Michel

Low tide

Mont St. Michel-doorway

St. Malo train station selfie
Mont St. Michel-as the sun sets. CLICK IMAGE FOR VIDEO.

Mont St. Michel-sun setting

Mont St. Michel-night shot

Train from Normandy

Paris Louvre Rivoli Metro station

Je-thé...me exterior

Je-thé...me tables

Je-thé...me menu

Je-thé...me foie gras

Je-thé...me potatoes and scallions

Je-thé...me sweetbreads

Je-thé...me fromage

Je-thé...me pommes crumble

Du pain et des idées exterior

Du pain et des idées

Du pain et des idées pagnol aux pommes, raisins & fleur d'oranger

Du pain et des idées rack

Du pain et des idées excargot

Fondation Cartier art museum

Fondation Cartier art museum

Metro Station Raspail

Fondation Cartier art museum

Fondation Cartier art museum

Fondation Cartier art museum

Last night dinner

Gifts to bring home