The street outside our hotel. Just love all the goings on. It all seems so alive. We left Paris just after lunch and arrived in Reims by VFT less than an hour later. We could see our hotel from the railway station!!! It's right in the thick of the action. Reims is overlooked by the massive Notre Dame gothic cathedral. (Yes, another ABC ie. 'another bloody cathedral') Each cathedral has a point of difference and this one's a beauty. There has been a cathedral ...

The famous Le Bonoparte cafe. Typical of many such cafes all around Paris.

A favourite pic of Notre Dame

A typical little cafe close to Notre Dame. It will be glorious once spring arrives We spent the day just wandering around and ended up at the Museum of Natural History. The skeletons in the palaeontology building were enough to give you nightmares!!! An amazing array of bones from all over the world and spanning many 100s of years. The precise calligraphy on the names tag enthralled me too. I would think that many of the tags would have been written many, many ...

The gates to the garden of Palais de Justice de Paris. Magnificent!!!