Europe - France, paris, marseille, lyon and grenoble

By the river seine

Outside the Notre Dame chapel

Along the place de concorde

Along the river seine

Paris by night eiffel tower in the back we went on a illuminations tour then went to the moulin rouge

On the steps of the petite palais

Revellers from bastille day

Beach at Marseille

Trust the french looking down over this beach one rather well endowed woman was washing herself and just pulled down her bottom trunks and gave a good scratch while washing

Coffee and snails and chocolate crossiants did I mention diet?

Walking through a park on the way to the beach

Fairground in the background

Museum in Lyon

Great architecture but the one wet day in france

Views from our accommodation in Lyon

Church on the hill with gold leaf statue of Mary

Views from the chapel carpark

Inside

Streets of Lyon

Roman ruins in Lyon

Went for a tour around the chapel but it was in french but spectacular views but a long walk up the steps

Went for a hour's cruise down in lyon and here is some of the photos we took liked that city and it is well known for its gastronomic delights and the food we had there was nice

Now we are in Genoble and yes you guessed it at the time trials for the Tour de france, they even have king of the Mountain cars here

Lots of advertising and fanfare beforehand

Some of the free stuff we got when it was being chucked over the rails, wonder how much those hats will go on ebay

Start of the race

Picuresque grenoble

We took the cable car up the top of the fortress some height

View from the top, imagine riding up those alps in a bike

View from the fortress

Went for a walk through the tunnels

The cable car went up to this part and to get to where we took the photo we had to climb up another mountain



When we were up at the fortress we thought we would go to a gallery on modern art



Should try out modern art myself one room had a microphone on a string weighed down at the other end and going around in circles

Sme of the magnificent doorways they have

QLd take 2, family in Mackay, NAIDOC week celebrations, Airlie Beach, xmas in July

My sister dianne and her grandson Gabriel at Adriennes place

Gabriel doing his push ups he saw Colm doing them after running so thought he would start, good boy keep it up

Adrienne my niece at home

Went for a day trip from Sarina to Eungulla national Park very nice Colm was impressed with the roads and mountains, good for bike riding he says

View from the top

Go on take off I dare you...

Saw platypus's in the wild here at the National Park

Two sisters together, Dianne and Raye

First day of the NAIDOC week and Dion is helping run the 'bro am' golf day with colm assisting

My other niece Leda with her nephew Adrienne's other boy biddy biddy or Deacon

Having a rest while watching the golf while Adrienne and Dave do the morning radio session on the community radio My105

Adrienne and Dave in the makeshift radio studio at the golf course

Uncle Dion with Dave in the background

NAIDOC awards dinner night and Grandma with her two boys Deacon and Gabriel

Dion presenting an award

Treated to traditional dancing at the awards night

Gabriel playing with Grandpa (poppa) after having his sugar load with dessert

Big coal industry up North and this is a port close to Sarina

The other big industry is sugar cane and ethanol here is a cane harvester in action

A ?restaurant in the middle of Sarina where colm took me for breakfast one morning and Dianne commented on the lack of a certificate from the health dept but hey what doesn't kill you makes you stronger! and the bacon and eggs with the butter and toast were yummy and the tea was hot and a full pot of it too

Up at airlie beach for a couple of days, nice place to see but full of backpackers and drunk hooligans

By the lagoon in the afternoon we did go for a swim the next day but it was still cold.....

The next day picture postcard setting isn't it

Next we took a day trip up to Bowen reminded us of Carnarvon a lot

Jetty looking out from the hill over bowen

View from the other side with a cane burn off in the background

Looking out to the islands from Bowen

Outside the big mango having frozen mango yum!

Youngest daughter colleen at the unit in town where we had a christmas in July celebration

Its myself so it is on the morning

Our breakfast for christmas

Becky my other daughter is such a morning person not

Chief cook and bottle washer hard at work still

Night before we left we went down to the pub with one of my oldest been over 30 years friends Belinda and now we are off overseas next blog will be from europe!