Musée Carnavalet

Strasbourg/Colmar

Strasbourg

Part of the clock inside the Cathedral.

You may be looking at this photo and thinking "Wow, there's Elen in the middle of nowhere." You'd be right. Middle of nowhere in this instance is also known as finally within sight of our hotel. It was an exciting adventure Strasbourg was completely booked, so we were in a suburb. The exciting part was that the tourist office gave us directions to the wrong hotel, so then we got new directions and just missed the bus we needed so ended up walking instead of waiting 50mins for the next one...result was much jubilation when we finally got to hotel after bus, bus, walk, ask directions, walk, tram, no bus, long walk. Actually it went pretty well and could have been worse...and at least it made going back into town when we knew the way no big.

Freiburg, Germany

All the girls from BYU that I was traveling with.

German is awesome! One of the fun signs where it is in German, but you know pretty much what it is saying...the other type of sign you have absolutely no clue what it is saying, but you can't help but be impressed by the enormous quantity of copiously accented letters without spaces between.



Yes, this was my lunch! We ate in a really fun little restaurant.

Lunch alla medieval liege-lord...or maybe Henry VIII. :)

Colmar

As you will notice random snowfall has generously been provided by the city of Colmar. Actually it did add a fun Christmasey touch, and it certainly was cold enough for snow. (Actually I guess not, since it rained and not snowed all day, but I'm sure it was close.)

....aw, I do have an affection for all Forbidden to the Public signs that I see in France, we just don't have a satisfactory english equivalent in my opinion. :)

Holly for sale in the Christmas market.


Courtyard of the Unterlinden Museum.


The awesome statues around the carousel definitely give this carousel the Coolest Random Carousel award. It really was exciting.

Bibliothèque Nationale

The Library from bottom of stairs

Side of boardwalk, you can see the start of the bridge on the right.

Standing at top of concourse looking down towards the corner where the above picture was taken from.


Isn't that a SWEET bridge?

If you only knew how many bicycle pictures I took. I won't tell you because you wouldn't believe me, or if you did my sense of moderation would lose all credibility.

View from bridge looking toward central Paris.

View from bridge looking other direction. I fell in love with the group of buildings and the smokestack.

Nice en novembre

NICE

Nice, sea, beach, quai, etc

On the Promenade des Anglais

Looking towards the Place Massena a central square, and area with lots of shopping, a mall, etc.

Yours Truly in the street behind the Cours Saleya
(market square/street)

The gulls are hoping to catch some of the fish for sell under the tent.

Nice Harbor

"Fish for sell in the morning"

Cours Saleya in the morning when they are still setting up the market.

Salt vendor - they had more variations of salt than I knew existed such as rose salt (with dried roses in it, and a black salt)

Russian Orthodox Cathedral


CANNES

Cannes Harbor

Cannes beach and promenade

This sand sculputre was enormous and very elaborate. Really cool.

Lunch on the beach--anyone?

View across from the promenade at the luxury boutiques on the other side.

Film Festival building...this is the more industrial side, but it gives the best feeling of the scope and architecture of the building.

They had several different ones of these in the park around the film festival building. The caption on the bottom says "Smile, you in Cannes". :)