Around the world, Day 1: GMT 0

Merry Christmas !
And for this wonderful day, we have a little gift too. We're starting a trip round the world in 8.... days (yes, a challenge 10 times faster than Phileas!). We''ll be today at the Greenwich Meridian, or almost : here we are in Edinburgh, Scottland. We hope you'll enjoy traveling with us through 8 different places and time zones. See you soon back in Paris (without the jet lag!)

Joyeux Noel !
Cette semaine, nous commencons un tour du monde qui durera.... 8 jours! Chaque jour nous allons suivre les fuseaux horaires pour voyager en images. Et nous commencons (presque) sur le méridien 0, Greenwich, avec Edimbourg ! Bon voyage!

The castle




View from the castle




A street in the city center


The Queen's residence


The cathedral




The botanic garden

Vezelay - front door

The famous front door of the Vezelay's church. This picture is not so good but this is the most famous part of the church and I wanted to show it to you.

Sacré Coeur

Le Sacré Coeur, view from the Tuileries garden, Paris 1

Vezelay - back

Vezelay

Vezelay is a small village located on a hill in Burgundy. The famous church of Vezelay overhangs the village and also all the surrounding hills around. This picture was taken inside the church, not well know as the front door (I will show you a photo of the front door next week)

Paris by night, one more

View from the Seine. The white light is coming from the Eiffel tower.

Yellow light

A view of Notre Dame with the yellow trees in autumn

Famous shop

Bazar de l'hotel de ville by night

Louvre

This week is the week of changes.
Mélanie is going to present you pictures of the country on saturday and sunday, and I will show you some pictures of Paris from today to friday. I took this pictures a week ago when I visited the Louvre. I hope you will enjoy as you enjoy the Mélanie's photos of Paris. Have a good week.

Claire

Chambord stairs

This is a view of the famous stairs of the Chambord castle (with 2 "propellers", that is to say that you can go up and down from 2 sides on a same floor without being in the same propellers)

One other famous thing of Chambord is the number of chimney : 426...

I let you make some research about this famous castle, here for example :

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chambord (french)

or here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chambord (english)

Chambord castle

View of the Chambord's castle from the old stables.

Garden festival - Chaumont sur Loire castle

Every year, in the Garden of Chaumont sur Loire castle, a "Garden Festival" is organised and artists or designers propose their idea of a garden according to a theme (for this one, the theme was red).

Chaumont sur Loire Castle

Chaumont sur Loire is an other small town where a castle "Renaissance" is settled.

Chenonceaux #2

This is an external tower in front of the Chenonceaux castle

and ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELANIE !!

I wish you all the best !

Chenonceaux #1

Some week-ends ago, I've visited three castles among the "Castles on the Loire".

The first one I want to show you is Chenonceaux. It is famous because it was built on the river as you can see on the picture.

Maulnes castle

Maulnes Castle - octagonal architecture castle, the only one in France (Yonne, 89)

Pyramids

Le Louvre, Paris 1
As you can see, the weather was quite gloomy yesterday morning... I hope you won't mind :)

Notre Dame

We continue with this week's theme, the famous touristic sites...

Notre-Dame seen from the Pont St Louis, Paris 1

Postcard(s)

Basilique du Sacré Coeur, Paris 18