France (and Monaco)



Paris. Guilded, Eglise du Dome.





Eiffel Tower, built solely for the Paris World Fair of 1889.
(Click here for some interesting facts)





Statue in Nôtre Dame.





Nôtre Dame.





Atop the Arc de Triomphe.





Arc de Triomphe.





A nice bridge in Paris... Pont del a Concorde.





The Thinker by Rodin.





Another sculpture by Rodin. These were at his museum and gardens.
Cost about AUD$6 to get in. Was nice.





A balcony on the Impressionists level of the Musee d'Orsay
This overlooks the River Seine and to Sacre Coeur on the hill in the distance.





A view of the Seine.





Contiki optional dinner in Paris.
(Made complete by watered down wine!)





45 minutes to see one of the largest and most famous art galleries in the world.
The Louvre was amazing. Wish I could have seen it.
Saw a painting on a wall behind perspex called, Mona someone-or-other.





Fontainbleu.





Good wakeboarding water.





And so we finally get to the Chateau de Cruix. Owned by Contiki.
Situated in the Beaujolais region of France near Lyon. On a bad winery.





Return trip after a walk to the top of local hills.





Carne, the place of the famous film festival.
They have ski boats.





Hairpin Left, downhill - first gear.... Niiiice. Monaco.





Nice cars around the Monaco casinos. Even outside the scheduled F1 events.





Garath the bus driver coming to pick us up from the Monaco Grand Casino.
(Shumacher has nothing on our man Tulip)





Thank you for stopping on the way to Italy,
(somewhere in between the 190 odd tunnels) so we could all take this photo.



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