France Trip - 2005

Fri 7 Oct Depart MSP 7:20 pm Sat 8 Oct Arrive KEF 6:20 am Keflavik, Iceland Sightseeing Lodging Hotel Keflavik 1 (0) 35 44 20 70 00

Fishing village

The Blue Lagoon thermal pools

Sun 9 Oct Depart KEF 7:45 am Arrive CDG 1:05 pm Paris, France Transport Sights Musée d’Orsay, Seine River cruise Lodging Le Regent Hotel 61 rue Dauphine 011 33.4.77.49.99.99

Musée d’Orsay Museum showing works of the western world from 1848 – 1914. Includes many works from the Impressionist Period Claude Monet, Rouen Chathedral. Harmony in Blue

Vincent van Gogh Starry Night

========= Cruise on the Siene River through the heart of Paris. Notre Dame Cathederal is in the background.

Mon 10 Oct Sights Notre Dame, Deportation Memorial, Sainte-Chapelle Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysees Lodging Royal Regency 69-71 rue Defrance, Vincennes 011 33.1.49.57.12.00

Notre Dame viewed from the East

Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysees (shau-zee-lee-zay), the street leading to the arc.

Tue 11 Oct Sights Eiffel Tower, Rodin Museé

The Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889

Rodin, The Thinker Rodin, Cathederal

Wed 12 Oct Sights Versailles

Thu 13 Oct Sights Museé du Louvre, Orangerie, Centre Pompidou

You enter the Louvre through this glass pyramid. From the lower level, which is a modern addition, you have a common point from which you enter the various galleries.

Leonardo di Vinci, Mona Lisa

Winged Victory of Samouthrace

In 1863 Charles Champoiseau, an archeologist serving at Adrianople as consul for France, found over 100 pieces of marble on the island of Samothrace, overlooking the Aegean sea.

He arranged to have these pieces transported to Paris, where they were reassembled at the Louvre into one of the most famous statues the world has ever known: the imposing eight-foot-tall Nike, Greek Goddess of Victory.

The Pompidou is a museum of modern art.

Fri 14 Oct Travel Ruoen, Honfleur (Normandy) Sights Rouen, Honfleur Lodging Hotel du Dauphin 011 02.31.89.15.53

Joan of Arc Museum Rouen, France is where she was tried and burned at the stake by the English.

Honfleur is a seaport where the Seine River and the English Channel meet. From here, William the Great launched many of his campaigns.

Sat 15 Oct Travel WWII Beaches and Memorials Mont Saint Michel Sights Omaha Beach, American War Memorial, Museum Lodging * Vielle Auberge, on Mont Saint Michel

02.33.60.14.34 Fax: 02.33070.87.04 Omaha Beach, Normandy

American Cemetery

Mont Saint Michel, island abbey. When the tide comes in, it comes in faster than a horse can ride.

Sun 16 Oct Sunday morning in the abbey atop Mont St. Michel Travel to Loire Valley Sights Explore Mont St. Michel, Fougeres (fortress), Trogdolyte dwellings, Rochemiener Museé

Lodging Chateau de Brou, Noyant de Touraine +33 (0) 2.47.65.80.80 Fortress walls of Fougeres

Trogdolyte dwellings carved from the soft stone of the river banks.

Mon 17 Oct Sights Chinon, Azay le Rideau, Vilandry Lodging *La Rocheliere, Vouvray? +33 (0) 2.47.52.61.47 Chinon

Azay Le Rideau, day and night Villandry

Tue 18 Oct Sights Chenonceau, Blois, Cheverny, Chaumont-sur-Loire Lodging *Chenonceaux ====================== Chenonceau

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Chaumont-sur-Loire

Wed 19 Oct Sights Amboise, le Clos Lucé Lodging *Chateau du le Ferté Saint Aubin

Amboise

Leonardo di Vinci’s last home.

Thu 20 Oct Sights Chombard Lodging Château de Chambord

Fri 21 Oct Sights Depart CDG 2:15 pm Arrrive KEF 3:45 pm Depart KEF 4:35 pm Arrive MSP 5:55 pm