OUTSIDE OF SAINT-GERMAIN DES PRÉS THE BUST WAS DONE BY PABLO PICASSO.

YES, THIS REALLY IS A PABLO PICASSO SCULPTURE. GUILLAUME APOLLINARE WAS A FAVORITE FRENCH POET AND A FRIEND OF PABLO PICASSO. THE PARIS MUNICIPAL COUNCIL WANTED A MONUMENT TO THIS POET BECAUSE OF HIS SERVICE IN WWII. THEY COMMISSIONED PABLO PICASSO TO CREATE THE MONUMENT BUT IT TOOK SEVERAL YEARS FOR THEM TO AGREE TO LET PICASSO CREATE AS HE WISHED. BY THAT TIME, PICASSO WAS FED UP WITH THEM SO HE JUST TOOK AN ALREADY CREATED BUST OF HIS FRIEND (AND I THINK LOVER), DORA MAAR AND USED THAT FOR TH...

ANOTHER PHOTO OF ÉGLISE DES SAINT-GERMAIN DES PRÉS.

THE TOMB OF RENE DESCARTE IS LOCATED HERE; 3 PLACE SAINT-GERMAIN DES PRÉS. THIS IS ONE OF THE OLDEST CHURCHES IN PARIS. WHEN THE EARLIER MONASTERY WAS BUILT HERE, IT WAS OUTSIDE OF PARIS CITY WALLS.

CAFE DU FLORE WAS ONE OF ERNEST HEMMINGWAYS' FAVORITE HANGOUTS.

CAFE DU FLORE WAS CLOSED WHEN I WENT THERE BECAUSE THEY WERE DOING A RENOVATION. IT IS AT 172 BD. SAINT-GERMAIN IN PARIS AND IT IS OPEN 0730-0130. IT IS ONE OF THE OLDEST COFFEHOUSE / RESTAURANTS IN PARIS. THE LITERARY PRIZE CALLED PRIX DE FLORE IS AWARDED EVERY YEAR HERE. THE TV SHOW CALLED EMILY IN PARIS HAS A SCENE HERE IN EPISODE 6 OF SEASON 1. THERE IS ALSO A MOVIE CALLED LES AMANTS DU FLORE WHICH IS ABOUT JEAN-PAUL SARTRE AND SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH THE RESTAURANT.

LES INVALIDES TOMB OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

ALSO KNOWN AS LE HÔTEL NATIONAL DES INVALIDES ALSO HOLDS THE TOMBS OF FAMILY MEMBERS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AND MILITARY FIGURES; NAPOLEON II AND GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH INCLUDED. YOU CAN VISIT HERE AND THERE IS NO COST. IT WAS ORIGINALLY A TYPE OF CONVALESANT AND OLD FOLKS HOME CREATED BY KING LOUIS XIV FOR SOLDIERS WHO COULD NO LONGER FIGHT. NOW IT IS FOR NAPOLEON FAMILY MEMBERS AND GENERALS WHO NO LONGER LIVE.

THIS TOMB IS ALSO IN LES INVALIDES.

HENRI DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE VICOMTE DE TURENNE WAS ONE OF SIX GENERALS WHO HAD BEEN PROMOTED TO MARSHAL GENERAL OF FRANCE. HE FOUGHT IN THE 80 YEARS WAR, THE 30 YEARS WAR, THE FRONDE CIVIL WAR, FRANCO-SPANISH WAR, WAR OF DEVOLUTION AGAINST SPANISH NETHERLANDS, AND THE FRANCO-DUTCH WAR. HE FOUGHT ON LAND AND SEA FOR ABOUT 50 YEARS. HE WAS A CAREER WARRIOR INDEED.

GENERAL AND CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE FRENCH ARMY.

THIS STATUE IS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHAMP DE MARS, NORTH OF PLACE JOFFRE STREET, ACROSS FROM ÉCOLE MILITAIRE (SEEN BEHIND THE STATUE). GENERAL JOSEPH JACQUES CÉSAIRE JOFFRE WAS ABLE TO REGROUP THE ALLIED FORCES DURING THE BATTLE OF MARNE WHILE THEY WERE STARTING TO RETREAT. I THINK HE DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES AT THE AGE OF 78.

METRO STOP ABBESSES IN PARIS.

THIS METRO STOP INCLUDES A CARROUSEL. IT IS AT THE FOOT OF THE MONTMARTRE NEIGBORHOOD (ARRONDISSEMENT 18) ON LINE 12. THERE IS ACTUALLY AN ELEVTOR FOR THIS METRO STOP BECAUSE IT IS ONE OF THE DEEPEST IN PARIS. IF YOU WATCH SENSE8 ON NETFLIX, YOU WILL SEE THIS HECTOR GUIMARD DESIGNED GLASS "DRAGONFLY ENTRANCE" A FEW TIMES.

ÉGLISE SAINT-JEAN DE MONTMARTRE FROM PLACE DES ABBESSES.

LOCATED AT 19-21 RUE DES ABBESSES, IS THIS CHURCH BUILT WITH RED BRICKS AND COMPLETED IN 1904. IT WAS CONSTRUCTED IN AN ART NOUVEAU ARCHITECTURAL STYLE. REINFORCED CONCRETE WAS ALSO USED WITH THE RED BRICK COVERING IT. REINFORCED CONCRETE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE USED IN CHURCH CONSTRUCTION IN PARIS BUT THE BUILDERS GOT AWAY WITH IT FOR THE FIRST TIME. THERE ARE TOURS HERE ON THE LAST SUNDAY EACH MONTH.

THIS IS IN MALMÖ CASTLE, SWEDEN.

MALMÖ IS IN SOUTH SWEDEN. IT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ÖRESUND STRAIT FROM COPENHAGEN DÄNMARK. THE TURNING TORSO BUILDING IS THERE AS WELL AS MALMÖ CASTLE. MALMÖHUS CASTLE IS WHERE THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN. IT IS A FORTRESS CASTLE. IT WAS BUILT AROUND 1550 TO REPLACE A PREVIOUS FORTRESS. IT WAS COMMISSIONED BY KING CHRISTIAN III OF DÄNMARK (SOUTHERN SWEDEN WAS PART OF THE KINGDOM OF DÄNMARK AT THE TIME). I DO NOT KNOW IF THIS ROOM HAS A CERTAIN NAME OR FUNCTION. AS FAR AS I NOTICED, IT IS JUST A...

THIS SKELETON CAN ALSO BE SEEN IN MALMÖ CASTLE.

THIS SKELETON HAS BEEN BOUND UP WITH CHAINS. THIS WAS A PRISON WITHIN THE CASTLE. EXECUTIONS HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT HERE.

OLD WATER RESERVOR NEAR PLACE TERTRE.

I WAS OUT FOR A MORNING PHOTO WALK AND DECIDED TO MAKE A PHOTO OF THIS INTERESTING PLACE WHICH WAS A MYSTERY TO ME AS TO WHAT IT WAS. I LATER FOUND OUT THAT IT IS "FONTAINE DE L'ANCIENT RESERVOIR". IT IS A HISTORICAL LANDMARK AT 9 RUE NORVINS.

SECOND LEVEL PROMENADE OF THE EIFFEL TOWER.

EVERYTHING CAN BE SEEN FROM HERE. THE MEANDERINGS OF THE SEINE RIVER, THE LOUVRE, BASILICA SACRE CŒRE, LES INVALIDES, NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL, AND THOUSANDS OF FANCIFUL ROOFTOPS. THE JULES VERNE RESTAURANT IS ALSO HERE AND IT IS MICHELIN STARRED. THERE IS ALSO A BUFFET ON THIS FLOOR AND ON THE FIRST LEVEL. THERE IS ALSO A MACAROON BAR. ANOTHER REALLY GOOD RESTAURANT IS MADAME BRASSERIE WITH CHEF THIERRY MARX. WE ALWAYS VISIT HERE SO WE CAN FIND A COUPLE OF SEATS AMONG MANY WHICH LINE THE HUGE WINDO...

SPENDING AN EVENING AT THE EIFFEL TOWER WITH LIGHTS FLASHING AT DUSK.

THE TOUR EIFFEL IS A WROUGHT IRON LATTICE TOWER THAT WAS COMPLETED IN 1889 ON 15TH OF MARCH WHICH IS EXACTLY 68 YEARS BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY. IT WAS OPENED TO THE PUBLIC ON THE 31st OF MARCH. IT HAS THREE FLOORS AND THE TOP FLOOR IS 906 FEET HIGH (276 METERS). ON THIS THIRD FLOOR, THERE IS A CHAMPAGNE BAR. IF YOU BUY A GLASS (PLASTIC) OF CHAMPAGNE, BUY THE BETTER ONE BECAUSE THE CHEAPER CHAMPAGNE IS JUST CHEAP. THE SMALL LIVING SPACE WHERE THE DESIGNER, GUSTAVE EIFFEL LIVED, IS HERE ALSO. THE SECOND...

ON RUE CLER IN PARIS. THIS IS A SHOPPING STREET NEAR TOUR EIFFEL.

THIS IS WHERE I RETURN EVERY TRIP TO PARIS TO BUY A NEW PAIR OF MEPHISTO SHOES. RENO BOUGHT A SHIRT HERE. THIS IS A MARKET STREET WITH VERY LITTLE VEHICULAR TRAFFIC. LOCALS ALSO FREQUENT THIS STREET FOR SHOPPING AND RELAXING IN SOME VERY NICE CAFES AND BOULANGERIES. THERE ARE WINE SHOPS, CHARCUTERIES, FROMAGERIE, FLOWER SHOP, A FRANPRIX, FRUIT STANDS, ICE CREAM SHOPS, A POISSONERIE, CLOTHING SHOPS, AND A FEW HIGH END SHOPS LIKE MARIAGE FRÈRES, AMORINO, A LA MERE DE FAMILLE, LEONIDAS CHOCOLATIER,...

TOUR EIFFEL FROM ONE OF THE PATHS THAT LEADS TO THE ENTRANCE.

I USUALLY STAY AT HÔTEL LANGLOIS WHILE IN PARIS. IT IS A REALLY QUAINT HOTEL IN THE OPÉRA NEIGHBORHOOD OF PARIS AND IT WAS FEATURED IN THE MOVIE "SOMETHING ABOUT CHARLIE". IF YOU WERE TO STAY THERE, METRO LINE 12 AND METRO LINE 8 WILL BRING YOU TO TOUR EIFFEL. BUS NUMBER 82 WILL ALSO BRING YOU THERE. LINE 12 BRINGS ME TO PLACE CONCORDE AND THEN I GET ON LINE 8 WHICH BRINGS ME TO ÉCOLE MILITAIRE METRO STOP. FROM THIS STOP, YOU CAN TAKE BUS 8 TO TOUR EIFFEL OR, AS I DO, JUST WALK. IT IS ONLY ABOUT...

LEAVING ONE ROOM IN MUSÉE LOUVRE AND ENTERING ANOTHER ROOM.

SOME OF THE CEILINGS IN THE LOUVRE MUSEUM ARE ESPECIALLY OPULENT. HERE IS A PHOTO OF A PORTION OF ONE SUCH CEILING. THERE ARE ONLY A FEW CEILING ARTWORKS IN THE LOUVRE THAT ARE OF THIS CENTURY SUCH AS THOSE DONE BY CY TWOMBLY, ANSELM KIEFER, AND FRANÇOIS MORELLET. BEFORE THESE ARTISTS, SOME OF THE MOST RECENT CEILING ARTWORKS IN THE LOUVRE WERE DONE BY EUGÈNE DELACROIX AND GEORGES BRAQUE. THE CEILING PAINTING BY EUGÈNE DELACROIX IS CALLED "APOLLO SLAYS THE PYTHON." IT IS IN THE CENTER OF THE GAL...

INSIDE OF INSTITUTION NATIONAL DES INVALIDES.

THIS IS IN THE AREA CALLED THE DOMED CHURCH. IT WAS ORIGINALLY A CHAPEL FOR VETERANS CALLED ÉGLISE SAINT-LOUIS DES INVALIDES ALONG WITH ÉGLISE DU DOME. THEY WERE FINISHED AROUND 1700. THE ÉGLISE DU DOME WAS THE ROYAL CHAPEL. IT WAS BUILT IN A FRENCH BAROQUE STYLE. HENRI DE TRIQUETI CREATED THE CRUCIFIX.

BETWEEN LES HALLES METRO STOP AND HÔTEL DE VILLE

AFTER WE FIRST ARRIVED IN PARIS IN 2018, WE HAD TO WALK FROM METRO STOP LES HALLES TO HÔTEL DE VILLE SO WE COULD PICK UP OUR PARIS PASS PACKAGES. WE CAME ACROSS THIS CULTURAL CENTER AND I JUST HAD TO TAKE A PHOTO OF IT. THE ARTISTS INVOLVED WITH THIS CENTER WORK HARD TO MAKE UP THE FACADE OF THIS BUILDING WITH VARIOUS ARTWORKS. EVERY YEAR WE COME TO PARIS IT WILL BE MADE UP DIFFERENTLY. THERE ARE 30 ARTIST STUDIOS HERE. CONCERTS ARE ALSO HELD HERE. THERE IS ALSO AN ART GALLERY HERE. INSIDE THE B...

EXPLORING RUE DE LA HUCHETTE.

THIS STREET IS ONE OF THE OLDEST STREETS IN PARIS. IT RUNS ALONG THE SEINE RIVER ON THE RIVE GAUCHE. IT RUNS BETWEEN PLACE SAINT-MICHEL AND RUE DE PETIT-PONT. ONE BUILDING WAS A BURNED OUT SHELL OF A BUILDING WHEN I WAS THERE. IT MUST HAVE BEEN A BAD FIRE. THIS STREET IS A POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATION WITH GREEK RESTAURANTS, PUBS, BARS, AND A THEATER. ELLIOT PAUL, A WRITER FROM USA MADE THIS STREET FAMOUS BY WRITING A BOOK ABOUT HIS LIFE LIVING HERE FOR SEVERAL YEARS. THE BOOK IS TITLED "THE LAST...

IN FRONT OF SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY BOOKSTORE.

AFTER A PHOTO WALK, I WANTED TO COME TO THIS ICONIC BOOKSTORE TO BUY A BOOK OR TWO (I HAVE A LIST OF BOOKS I WANT TO BUY BECAUSE THEY WERE WRITTEN BY AUTHORS WHO HAVE A CONNECTION TO PARIS). I TOOK THIS PHOTO WHILE I WAS WAITING FOR THE BOOKSTORE TO OPEN. THE ADDRESS HERE IS 37 RUE DE LA BÛCHERIE. NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL CAN EASILY BE SEEN FROM HERE BECAUSE SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY IS JUST A SMALL DISTANCE DOWN THE RIVER FROM WHERE THE CATHEDRAL IS LOCATED. IT WAS OPENED AROUND 1950 AND THE OWNER, ...

FREDERIKSBORG SLOT FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF ITS SLOTSSØEN.

SØ IS LAKE IN DANISH.
SLOT MEANS CASTLE N DANISH.
THEREFORE, SLOTSSØEN INDICATES THAT THIS IS THE CASTLES' LAKE. THIS DANISH RENAISSANCE CASTLE WAS BUILT ABOUT 1625 AS A ROYAL RESIDENCE FOR KING CHRISTIAN IV. IF YOU WANT TO VISIT THIS CASTLE YOU WILL HAVE TO GO TO HILLERØD BECAUSE IT IS NOT IN COPENHAGEN. BEFORE THIS CASTLE WAS COMMISSIONED BY KING CHRISTIAN IV, THERE WAS A SMALLER CASTLE COMPLEX HERE WHICH WAS ACQUIRED BY KING FREDERICK II (KING OF BOTH DÄNMARK AND NORWAY). A FEW BUILDINGS FR...

ENTERING KRONBORG CASTLE.

KRONBORG CASTLE IS IN HELSINGØR DÄNMARK. IT IS ALSO KNOWN AS ELSINORE BECAUSE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE CALLED IT THAT WHEN HE WROTE HAMLET. THE NAME PROBABLY COMES FROM THE NAME OF ITS REAL LOCATION, HELSINGØR. IT IS A UNESCO SITE. IT STARTED OUT AS KROGEN FORTRESS BUILT BY KING ERIC VII AROUND 1425. THEN, AROUND 1580, KING FREDERICK II COMMISSIONED A GREAT DANISH RENAISSANCE CASTLE HERE. IN 1629, A FIRE DESTROYED MUCH OF THE CASTLE AND THEN KING CHRISTIAN IV HAD IT RESTORED BY AROUND 1640. IT NOW HA...

THE TEMPTATION OF ADAM AND EVE AS DISPLAYED AT MALMÖ ART MUSEUM.

THIS PAINTING IS CALLED "THE FALL OF MAN" AND IT WAS PAINTED BY FRANS FLORIS AROUND THE YEAR 1560. I PHOTOGRAPHED IT WHILE IT WAS ON DISPLAY IN MALMÖ CASTLE. IT IS AN OIL ON WOOD PAINTING. FRANS FLORIS WAS ACTUALLY A FLEMISH PAINTER WHO LIVED FROM 1520 UNTIL 1570. HE LIVED AND DIED IN ANTWERP BELGIUM.

INSIDE OPÉRA GARNIER.

WE PAID FOR A TOUR GUIDE HERE. THERE WERE ABOUT 15 PEOPLE IN THE TOUR. IT IS ALSO CALLED PALAIS GARNIER BUT IT WAS BUILT AS AN OPERA HOUSE. IT WAS BUILT FOR EMPEROR NAPOLEON III BUT HE PASSED AWAY BEFORE HE COULD ENJOY ANY PLAYS HERE. CHARLES GARNIER DESIGNED THE BUILDING AND HE BUILT IT WITH THE OPULENCE OF THE NAPOLEON III STYLE WHICH USES EVERY INCH OF SPACE FOR BAROQUE, PALLADIO, AND RENAISSANCE DECORATION. BALLET IS PERFORMED HERE FOR THE MOST PART THESE DAYS.

THE HIGHWAY PASSING THROUGH CREED COLORADO.

CREED IS A SMALL TOWN WITH ONLY ABOUT 300 RESIDENTS. THERE ARE ALWAYS MORE PEOPLE THAN THAT, THOUGH, BECAUSE THERE ARE A FEW HOTELS IN THE TOWN. SILVER WAS DISCOVERED IN THE AREA AROUND 1840 AND OTHER MINERALS WERE FOUND TO BE ABUNDANT BY 1890, SO MUCH SO THAT THE POPULATION REACHED TO ABOUT 10,000. NICHOLAS C. CREEDE DISCOVERED MINERALS THAT BECAME THE HOLY MOSES MINE. CREED BECAME A NOTORIOUS COMMUNITY AT ITS PEAK WITH SUCH CHARACTERS LIKE BAT MASTERSON, AND ROBERT FORD. ROBERT FORD KILLED JES...

HORSEBACK RIDING JUST OUTSIDE OF CREED COLORADO.

OUR TOUR GUIDE IS CALLED A WRANGLER. JOHN WHITNEY HAS BEEN WITH COTTONWOOD COVE FOR ABOUT 35 YEARS.THERE IS NO DOUBLE RIDING THOUGH, EVERYONE GETS THEIR OWN HORSE. BUT THE INSTRUCTIONS AS TO HOW TO HANDLE THE HORSE ARE VERY CLEAR SO EVEN A FIRST TIMER WILL HAVE NO TROUBLE GETTING ALONG ON THE HORSE.

DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS COLORADO.

THIS IS THE ALBANY BUILDING. IT IS A HISTORICAL BUILDING AMONG MANY HISTORICAL BUILDINGS IN DOWNTOWN COLORADO SPRINGS. IT IS NOW AN APARTMENT COMMUNITY CALLED THE ALBANY HOTEL / MOUNTAIN CHALET. IT WAS THE LENNOX SINCE IT WAS BUILT BY WILLIAM LENNOX IN 1902. IT BECAME THE ALBANY HOTEL IN 1921.

MEDIEVAL BUILDING NEAR LE MARAIS NEIGHBORHOOD OF PARIS.

WE ARE JUST WEST OF LE MARAIS NEIGHBORHOOD. I WAS OUT ON AN EARLY MORNING PHOTO WALK AND I HAD TO TAKE A PHOTO OF THIS ANCIENT WALL DRINKING FOUNTAN. IT IS VERTBOIS FOUNTAIN, CONSTRUCTED IN 1712. THE SIGN SAYS THAT IT WAS RESTORED IN 1882. THE SIGN ALSO SAYS THAT THIS FOUNTAIN IS PART OF THE ANCIENT PRIORY OF SAINT MARTIN DES CHAMPS.

ON THE STREETS OF GUATEMALA CITY GUATAMALA.

WHEN WE FLEW TO GUATEMALA, I HAD ONLY TWO DESTINATIONS. ONE WAS VOLCÁN PACAYA AND THE OTHER WAS ANTIGUA. CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA IS THE LARGEST CITY IN CENTRAL AMERICA. ITS HISTORY IS THE MAYAN CIVILIZATION. THE NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM IS HERE AND IT HAS AN EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF MAYAN ARTIFACTS. ANTIGUA WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS WHEN IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1527. IT IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO VOLCÁN PACAYA THAT IT HAS SUFFERED DESTRUCTION DUE TO PAST VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. VILLAGES I...

I TOOK THIS PHOTO WHILE OUT ON A PHOTO WALK IN NAPOLI ITALY.

I WAS STAYING IN THE HISTORIC AREA OF NAPOLI WHEN I WAS OUT ON THIS PHOTO WALK. THIS CENTRO STORICO IS A WORLD HERITAGE SITE THAT WAS FOUNDED AS NEAPOLIS BY GREEK SETTLERS AROUND 470 BCE. THIS AREA IS LOCATED, MORE OR LESS BETWEEN CASTEL NUOVO, CASTEL SANT'ELMO, AND CASTEL DELL'OVO. MUSEO NAZIONALE DELLA CERAMICA DUCA DI MARTINA IS AT THE WEST SIDE OF THE CENTRO STORICO AND QUARTIERI SPAGNOLI IS AT THE EAST SIDE. PIAZZA DEL PLEBISCITO IS BETWEEN QUARTIERI SPAGNOLI AND THE GULF OF NAPLES. IT IS ...

I BELIEVE THIS IS THE SOUTH SIDE OF HAGIA SOFIA. ISTANBUL.

MORE AUTHENTICALLY CALLED AYASOFYA CAMII. IT IS LOCATED AT SULTAN AHMET AREA OF ISTANBUL WHICH IS WITHIN VERY EASY WALKING DISTANCE TO THE BOSPHORUS STRAIT. ON THE OTHER END OF A LONG, LOVELY, WELL KEPT PARK IS THE BLUE MOSQUE, MORE AUTHENTICALLY CALLED SULTANAHMET CAMII. ITS CONSTRUCTION WAS COMPLETED IN 537 AS AN ORTHODOX CHURCH BUILT BY THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE. IT BECAME A MESJID, OR CAMII, IN 1453 WITH THE CONQUEST BY THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. IT BECAME A MUSEUM IN 1935. TODAY IT IS A WORKING MO...