markpalmer44's PhotoBlog

Le Tour

2008-07-21T22:02:14Z

Simon Gerrans on his charge towards victory, "He just made contact after he passed us, maybe it was our cheering, Can we take some credit for yelling "Hold on and take them at the top Simon", Cadel splended in yellow (Although the scars look bad) and some of the other aussies not look too good. Oh and one american but he's not a bad guy.

Day 41

2008-07-15T22:34:32Z

A photo of the grand palais, the Sacre Cour and some paris life around the Sacre Cour, The guy with the ball was incredible and the puppet guy was not bad either

Day 40

2008-07-12T21:56:55Z

My day in paris, 14 metro lines covered in less than 3 hours. OK thats it I have been in Paris too long, The other reason to see some of the interesting metro stations, stay tuned for that, The order is the order you have to do them in Line 9 and 10 do not join so you can do 1-9 but then the order breaks down

Day 39

2008-07-11T22:50:13Z

Some night shots of the Eiffel Tour, Etoile(Arc De Triumph) and Champs Elysee Loius Veton Store

Day 38

2008-07-08T22:09:58Z

Back in Paris. Some of the great buildings around paris, And a few different shots of the Notre Dame, My favourite building in Paris.

Day 37 - Normandy

2008-07-07T21:29:42Z

The last set from Normandy, The Omaha beach memorial, and Point Hoc, The cliff climbed by the rangers with rope and ladder on the day of the landings, Their objective was to destroy the guns on the point that could have caused big problems with omaha and Utah beaches, The reality was there was no guns they has been removed, they were found by a couple of rangers later in a field and destroyed. You can see how much damage the warship guns did before the landings on the beaches

Day 36 - Normandy

2008-07-06T23:17:20Z

The second set of photo's from Normandy, The First was of the German Gun Placement which is remained pretty well intact. The front observation post was used in the Longest Day Movie. The Guns are surprisingly far from the coast, and the observation post is remarkably to be inside, not much of a view. The second photo's are of the American Cemetary. The Wall of the missing, The monument, The Ceiling of the Chapel and finally Two sets of Brothers, the Roservelts, Son's of Teddy Roservelt, One died in World War 1, and was moved here later. Theodore's grave is gold as he was one of 4 medal of honor winners in the graveyard. The second set of graves, also buried together are the brothers that were the inspiration for the movie saving Private Ryan, Real life is not as good as the movie as 2 brothers eventually returned home (the second from a japanese Prisoner Camp).

Day 35 - Normandy

2008-07-04T21:58:51Z

Gold Beach, The beach the British landed at, Some of the remaining portable harbour that was set up after the landing, the Town that the harbour docks entered after the initial landing, Finally the Statue of Marie that was present even for the landings

Day 34 - Normandy

2008-07-02T22:36:53Z

A few photo's from the Caen Memorial Museum, A great musuem, The last photo is of a car from September 11, Its a bit modern for the normandy invasion

Day 33 - Stuttgart

2008-06-30T22:05:58Z

The last set of photo's from stuttgart. A couple of the great buildings, there is a large underground part to stuttgart that you would miss unless you get down into it, Notice the difference between the french and germans, the germans face each other and talk to each other (the french tend to face the street), Lastly the train station, possible the ugliest in europe even the mercedes emblem does nothing to help it.