Slideshow Index: Chambord and Return to Paris

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• May 25th - Chateaux Chambord is the largest in the Loire Valley
• Chambord
• There are unique towers everywhere you look
• Da Vinci designed the twin spiral staircases (like DNA)
• The gardens are spectacular
• Chambord gardens
• Another set of towers
• Great views from the fourth floor balconies
• Chambord
• Place de la Concord (at the end of the Champs Elysees)
• Rodin sculpture in front of the Orange Museum
• Kathy and a Monet Mural in the Musee de l'Orangerie
• The Monet wall murals are mostly in this museum
• Monet
• Monet painting
• River Seine and tourist boats at the Alexander III bridge
• Le Petit Palais (The little palace)
• The first funeral sculpture in the Petit Palais collection
• Another fine Monet painting
• At the top of the Grande Palais
• The most famous avenue in Paris, 1.3 miles long
• View of the Champs Elysees towards the Arc de Triomphe
• We had our tour farewell dinner at L'Alsace
• Some of our friends on the tour
• We took a Seine cruise after dinner
• Notre Dame view from the boat
• The Eiffel Tower with lights