Les Andelys

Sorry for any confusion at the end of last footprint - location had a malfunction and had us slipping in to England. The Normandy beaches were where we stopped and definitely didn't swim the English channel !!

Day 37 - a guided tour of the ruins of Chateau Gaillard in the Les Andelys commune. The medieval castle was built between 1196 and 1198 by Richard the Lionheart. Some quaint shops in this village.
Video 1 - views of the river approaching Chateau Gaillard

Photo 1, 2 and 3 - Chateau Gaillard

Day 38 - on our last day of the Viking river cruise we went to Chateau de Malmaison, the residence of Napolean and Josephine. They grow standard lantana in the garden.

Photo 4 and 5 - Chateau de Malmaison
Photo 6 and 7- Josephine and Napolean

Video 2 - house boats on River Seine

Day 39 - we took a tour on the hop-on and hop-off bus around Paris. The day we did the Panaramic Paris bus and walking it was raining at the beginning so we caught up on sights on the top deck of the bus.

Photo 8 - there's 900 of these green boxes on the Seine River selling second-hand books and souvenirs.
Photos - 9 and 10 - hop-on, hop- off bus through Paris
Photo 11 - Arc de Triomphe - the juncture of 12 avenues of traffic - chaos !!
Photo 12 - military museum and tomb of Napolean
Photo 13 - Eiffel TowerLes mer