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France,france - Travel Photo Gallery U sername: P assword: R emember Me Car Hire Travel Insurance Airport Parking UK Cheap Accommodation Hotel Bookings Travellerspoint Travel Community Forums Blogs Destinations Accommodation Travel Help Reunions Tools Links France,france - Travel Photo Gallery Travel Photography > France,france - Travel Photo Gallery This Gallery Show as stream Size: XS S M Tags: france Countries: France Count: 54 Photos Related Categories: landscapes france me streets mountains people snow buildings art skylines Page 1 2 3 Next Monte Carlo Port, Monaco Date: 1 December 2005 Photographer: Rishi and Ben Fox : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Napolean looks over the courtyard at Les Invalides This statue looks out over the courtyard at Les Invalides, where Napolean is buried Date: 16 October 2005 Photographer: Greg Wesson : gallery Country: France : gallery Tags: art Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M monmartre Date: 2 October 2005 Photographer: Adelina Ong : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Exiting the Pantheon , Paris, France A fantastic view greets people leaving the Pantheon. In the distance is Luxembourg gardens, and in the far distance, the Eiffel tower. Date: 23 September 2005 Photographer: Greg Wesson : gallery Country: France : gallery Tags: cityscapes Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Skull and bones in the catacombs of Paris, France Pretty creepy, no? Date: 12 September 2005 Photographer: Greg Wesson : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Angel in Reims Notre Dame of Reims - laughing angel. Date: 15 August 2005 Photographer: Brigitte Leuridan : gallery Country: France : gallery Tags: art Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Moissac abbey The abbey of Moissac is a highlight of the French medieval art. We had a wonderfull guided tour. Date: 18 July 2005 Photographer: Brigitte Leuridan : gallery Country: France : gallery Tags: art Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Strasburo nereali katedra Date: July 2005 Photographer: Martynas Staskevicius : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Kids, Paris Date: June 2005 Photographer: kel seow : gallery Country: France : gallery Tags: children france Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Marais, Paris Date: June 2005 Photographer: kel seow : gallery Country: France : gallery Tags: streets france Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Street Artistes, Montmartre Date: June 2005 Photographer: kel seow : gallery Country: France : gallery Tags: streets france Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Signs Signs on the slopes of Val d'Isere. The glacier indicated had great skiing! Date: 1 May 2005 Photographer: Samuel Klingen Daams : gallery Country: France : gallery Tags: snow signs skiing Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L The Eiffel Tower Date: 9 April 2005 Photographer: Greg Wesson : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M Climbing the Arc de Triomphe Looking down the staircase at the Arc Date: 9 April 2005 Photographer: Greg Wesson : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M Vive la France The French flag flies above Paris Date: 9 April 2005 Photographer: Greg Wesson : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M Jardin du Palais Royal, Paris A great place to just sit and relax on a beautiful spring morning! Date: April 2005 Photographer: Katie F : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M Notre-Dame, Paris There are flowers everywhere in Paris in the springtime. Date: April 2005 Photographer: Katie F : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M Musée d'Orsay, Paris View from inside the Musée, looking out to Sacré Coeur Church. Date: April 2005 Photographer: Katie F : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M Ile de la Cité, Paris View from the Pont des Arts Date: April 2005 Photographer: Katie F : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M Montmartre Vineyard, Paris The only vineyard within the city limits of Paris. Date: April 2005 Photographer: Katie F : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M Paris by night View from the Georges Pompidou Centre Date: 14 March 2005 Photographer: Eoghan Healy : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M Notre Dame Catherdal, Paris Interior Date: 13 March 2005 Photographer: Eoghan Healy : gallery Country: France : gallery Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M Sacre Coeur, Montmartre, Paris Date: March 2005 Photographer: Evan Stringer : gallery Country: France : gallery Tags: churches buildings Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Louvre Doesn't this one look pro? haha its a big deal for me Date: March 2005 Photographer: Evan Stringer : gallery Country: France : gallery Tags: buildings Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Meribel French Alps Date: 2005 Photographer: Cristy Phelan : gallery Country: France : gallery Tags: landscapes mountains skylines snow Send as postcard Featured in the France Photo Gallery Sizes: XS | S | M | L Page 1 2 3 Next © 2002 - 2005 Travellerspoint Travel Community | Contact | FAQ | About | Terms | Site Map

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Before You Leave Home Make copies of your passport, driver's license, credit cards, wallet contents, and travel documents (plane tickets, etc). You also should make a copy of the credit card "lost or stolen" notification phone numbers to include with this package. Leave one set of copies at home with a trusted friend or family member, and take the other set with you, packed separately from the originals. Many cruise ships will hold your passport to expedite clearing the ship in foreign ports. Therefore, I always make a couple of extra copies of my passport to use to take ashore. Buy an under-the-clothing money bag and use it. These can be quite comfortable, and will thwart "cut and run" thieves who have been known to cut purse straps or waist packs right off their victims. Packing Your Luggage Don't rush out and buy expensive luggage. Plain-looking luggage is less likely to be a target. Some thieves might equate expensive luggage with expensive contents. Make a list of everything you have put in your luggage, and take pictures of it while packing in case of loss. Don't pack medications, eyeglasses, and valuables in your checked luggage. (Better yet, don't take valuables like expensive jewelry with you on the cruise.) Although you need to put external (and internal) tags on your luggage, don't list your full home address on the outside. This is a signal to expert thieves that you won't be home for a week! You really don't want to advertise to everyone at the airport where you live. Although you don't want expensive luggage, you do want luggage that will not pop open at an inopportune time. I've seen all sorts of baggage contents (including some "unmentionables") come out on the luggage carousels at the airport, and always felt sorry for the owners whose bags had come open. Consider using an extra band, airport plastic wrap, or duct tape to help secure your bags. You can buy self-locking plastic tags from travel or home improvement stores for about a dollar. These work well on zippered bags. In Your Cabin When you first get to your cabin, check the bathroom and closet while the cabin door is still open. While a ship is in port, many more people have access to it than you might imagine. Being cautious never hurt anyone. In addition, sometimes the locks on cruise ship cabins are not changed as often as hotel locks. Don't leave valuables lying around in your cabin. Put your wallet and valuables in the cabin's safe or the purser's safe. Be sure to use ALL the locks on the door when you are asleep. Don't open the door to strangers. Protect your cabin key and cabin number. On the Ship Although cruise ships are relatively safe, common sense is needed even at sea. Stay in the public areas, and remember that a cruise ship and its crew and passengers are like a small city, not like your family. If you are cruising with your children, set rules just like at home. Establish curfews for your teenagers, and caution them to not accompany crew members to non-public areas. Don't give your children "the run of the ship" while you are in the club, show, or casino. While In Port If you are going to be a crime victim while on a cruise, it is most likely to occur when you are ashore. Most crimes committed against cruise passengers are those of opportunity. I wear an under-the-clothing bag for my money and credit cards. While in Europe on a cruise vacation, there were at least three men on our cruise whose pockets were picked. Two men had their wallets in their back pocket--the worst place to carry it! One of these men was in the elevator of our pre-cruise Barcelona hotel, and another was waiting to cross the street at a busy intersection. The third man was on a crowded subway in Rome, and had his wallet in his front pants pocket. All three of these crimes could have been avoided. I once had my purse stolen while on business in Washington, D. C. I left it on the back of my chair while dining. I now know to hold it in my lap. I was very glad that I had recorded all of my credit card numbers (and notification phone numbers) in a place other than my purse. I was able to quickly notify the credit card companies and my bank, even though the theft occurred at night. You can't put your camera inside your clothing and have it ready to snap that special picture. Don't put it in a backpack, unless you wear it in front! I have a small camera bag that I can attach to a belt. If you want to carry it in a waist pack, put the strap through your belt loops. These tips are all common sense. Use them to make your next cruise vacation a safe one! 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Tim Leffel's Cheapest Destinations Tim Leffel's Cheapest Destinations Places where a fistful of dollars will pay for weeks of hotels, train rides, and meals. « More Reasons Not to Take a Cruise | Main | A Home Abroad vs. A Home at Home » November 22, 2005 "Cheap" Travel is Relative If you're not convinced that your choice of destination will have the biggest impact on your travel budget, mosey on over to the New York Times' Cheap Sleep article. It's a nice rundown on hip and stylish places that won't cost you as much as a night at the Four Seasons, but for anyone who has traveled to any of The World's Cheapest Destinations , $114 a night for a hotel with a shared bath seems downright warped. Other bargains in the article include a $107 hotel in Paris and a $124 hotel in L.A. with "Moroccan dcor." I won't go into what you can get for that amount of money in Morocco itself. Or how you could get a penthouse suite and all three meals for that price in most of Indonesia. But trust me when I say the price of a "bargain" room in these cities is near the top end of the scale in a few hundred other cities around the globe. I can attest to the fact that anything under $200 a night is definitely a deal in Manhattan, however--I was just there last week. The three of us stayed at Radio City Apartments , right off Times Square. Convenient location, a clean 2-bed room bigger than the one at the W I had last time, a kitchenette, and only $155 a night. (Plus loads of taxes, including a $3 Javitz Center tax. Funny, didn't realize I was there for a convention...) Of course meals cost a bundle, the subway's up to $2, we shared a cab from Newark Airport for $60, my inlaws got two drinks at a hotel bar for $18, going to the top of the Empire State Building is $14, yada yada yada. Before you know it, you've spent an amount of money that would last you weeks in other spots on the globe. But it's a great city, so you suck it up and keep opening the wallet. As New Yorkers will tell you though, the city is not without its deals. My daughter screamed with joy when she saw the carousel in Central Park. It put a big smile on my face too when I saw that it was only $1.25 a ride. Walking through the park was free of course, and beautiful at this time of year, with the leaves still changing colors. Speaking of free, perhaps the greatest bargain of all is the ride on the Staten Island Ferry. We timed it perfectly and saw the city from the water as the sun was going down, then the Statue of Liberty at sunset and when the torch is lit for the evening. I used to live up there and have seen it all before, but it's still magical. Posted by Tim Leffel at November 22, 2005 03:26 PM RSS Feed Forbes Best of the Web Buy The Book Untitled Document The Worlds Cheapest Destinations provides a capsule overview of 21 great travel bargains, with cost information for lodging, restaurant meals, local transportation, and attractions, including what you can get for a buck or less in each country. From the Great Pyramids to the Taj Mahal to some of the best snorkeling and diving spots on Earth, this book will show you where to have a fantastic experience without spending a fantastic fortune. Free Excerpt From The Book (PDF file - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) Buy the Book Links Cheapest Destinations Web Site Destination Articles Search Search this site: Recent Entries A Home Abroad vs. A Home at Home "Cheap" Travel is Relative More Reasons Not to Take a Cruise U.S. Survey - Our Airlines Suck Responsible Tourism - Your Job Too (Relaxed) Travel Is Good for Your Health Charities Block Famine-Relief Savings Do Your Homework Before You Travel Yo, What About Guatemala? Money for Travel - a Matter of Priorities Archives November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 Find Other Blogs Popdex Blogarama BlogUniverse BlogWise Eatonweb Globe Of Blogs Powered by Movable Type 2.63

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