Paris!

Nightlights












We climbed the tower of Notre Dame!....TWICE! (Cue the 3 stooges theme song)


Views from the top of Notre Dame











Stain glass from inside Saint-Chapalle





Halo much? (Musee d'Orsey)


The Musee de Louvre


Leslie in front of "The Raft of the Medusa" by Gericault


A view from our hotel window :)

More Art!

Leslie and I went back to London, for a second round of museum hopping. Here are some of the image we saw.

At the National Gallery:

Jan van Eyck "Arnolfini Double Portrait" aka "The marriage of Arnolfini"



Raphael Sanzio "Pope Julius II"



Hans Holbein "The Ambassadors"



At the Courtauld Museum.

Edward Manet "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere"



Paul Cezanne "Still Life with Plaster Cupid"



At the National Portrait Gallery we got to see a fantastic exhibit by Gehard Richter. Oh yeah, James Bond er.. Pierce Brosnan was there too.







We also saw some great art in Edinburgh. Here are some things we saw.

The National Galleries of Scotland

Damien Hirst "Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding"



Damien Hirst "Away from the Flock"

Vertical Edinburgh

Leslie and I had a great time in Edinburgh! It's the most enchanting place we've been to. It took us a while to get the pronunciation down; we practiced saying it the entire weekend :) (eh-din-bur-ah)



Edinburgh Castle from the West Princes Gardens





A view from the castle walls





The plaza at East Princes Street Gardens







Some fine examples of contemporary Scottish cookie-cutter signage.




Edinburgh was full of pleasant sights and sounds. Every few blocks you could find someone playing the bagpipes.



A view inside Scotland's National Portrait Gallery.




Peeking through the cannon port. To signal the time, a Howizter is fired at 1pm, each day, with very few exceptions. Our tour guide said the Scottish are to frugal to shoot it at noon since it would be twelve times as expensive :)




This is a very special place. It is a cemetary inside the castle for the pets of officers.

Belvoir Castle

On Wednesday Leslie and I visted the Belvoir Castle, which can be seen from our bedroom window at Harlaxton Manor. Although the original castle was Norman (11th cent) it has been destroyed and rebuilt many times. The current structure is from the Victorian era and is home to the Duke and Duchess of Rutland.



From our window :)

















Harlaxton from Belvoir Castle!



Henry VIII meet Leslie the first! Leslie is mimicking the painting of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein. :)

London Fog at Harlaxton

For nearly half the day Harlaxton Manor was veiled in mist. Nature's own Gausian Blurr! I snapped some pics for you to see. Enjoy!