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Joan and Bill went on their first Road Scholar trip - a week in London and Paris with 22 other travelers. We gave it high marks for organization - the guides did all the navigating, and the wireless headsets allowed everyone to hear their commentaries. Jim Winn took a lot of pictures ( https://picsof2cities.shutterfly.com/pictures), and a subset of those is below.
The Road Scholar trip followed our visit with the Ridges at Brockley in the West Country of England (see http://www.sgrhoa.net/betz/141002/). 42 images  2. WWI memorial - ceramic poppies (nearly a million) at the Tower of London  3. Some of us OD'ed on the modern monarchy. They took us to the Royal Mews. We were not amewsed  4. National Portrait gallery - 4 grandkids  5. London's modern architecture is stunning  6.  7. Kensington Palace  8. Kensington Palace garderns  9. The show about Queen Victoria at Kensington Palace was interesting. Here is the stereotypical view of her...  10. ... and here is the sensual portrait that she commissioned for private consumption by her Albert.  11. On to Paris and the River Seine  12. We had never been to St. Chapelle, a stunning chapel dating from the 1200s  13. Notre Dame  14. Notre Dame  15. part of our group - Ange, our guide, on the left  16. Lunch in the fabulous Musee D'Orsay  17. OK, this is water, but we had wine with every lunch and diner  18. Richard Feffer, Bostonian, our star traveler, on his 40-somethingth Road Scholar trip. He is 94 years old and kept pace the entire time (plus attended operas in both cities)   20.  21. A personal highlight was a guided tour of the market (partly open air) in Le Marais  22. Behind the counter of her shop ("Miss Lunch"), our guide for the tour of the market, where we sampled cheese, chocolate, wine, and ham - all delicious  23. all organs seemed to be represented  24. The French of course are inveterate invertebrate fans.  25.  26. This elevated former rail line runs entirely across the city. It is now a beautiful walkway.  27. typical view from the elevated garden walkway  28. Joan asked a lot of questions  29. not our hotel  30. Musee Rodin  31. 'The Kiss' (Rodin Museum, l) and Jim's wife Angela at the inverted pyramid inside the Louvre (r)   33. I.M. Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre  34. Original walls with model of original Louvre  35. lady from the island of Milos  36. Ange (l) draws attention to the ceiling, and everyone listening with a headset looks up...  37. ... at this  38. Louvre sitting room  39. this room was packed with tourists  40.  41. Sacre Coeur  42. we walked up due to the long wait for the funicular (it was the annual holiday of the area)  |