Keith-<BR><BR>Your pictures were absolutely great! You could write travel books, your narration was wonderful!<BR>The bike trip sounded interesting - where can I find more info about it?

&gt;The bike trip sounded interesting - where can I find more info about it? <BR><BR><BR>http://www.mikesbiketoursparis.com/ In addition to their downtown Pairs tours they have tours to Versailles and Claude Monet's Gardens. Also they offer tours in Amsterdam, Barcelona and Munich.<BR><BR>I ride quite a bit, but these bicycles are comfortable and the pace isn't too bad, I think anyone in average health can do it. No one in our party seemed to have trouble keeping up.<BR><BR> Keith<BR>

Hi Keith,<BR> Thanks for your excellent trip report. <BR>When you wrote <BR>&quot;The Livarot ... has a brown rind, a full and assertive flavor, a supple texture and a pungent aroma&quot; I could taste it.

Keith your pictures are great. My exposed film was stolen so I have no pictures of Paris. We were there at the same time.

judya, you must have been crushed. So sorry you lost your photos!<BR><BR>Madison, sorry, I forgot to answer your questions. The camera I am using is a 3 year old digital Casio QV8000SX. It only has 1.2 megapixels but has an 8X optical zoom and a pivot mount on the lens. I took most of my low light photos by finding a flat surface where I could set the camera down and not add blurr from my holding it.<BR><BR>Also since it is digital and I can see the results right away, I might take 3 or 4 shots of the same scene and delete the poor ones right away. I kept maybe 10 different shots of Mont-Saint-Michel by night. A different one from the one with the report, is now the wallpaper on my computer.<BR><BR> Keith<BR><BR>PS: Now that the miles are credited from this trip, I have enough miles for a ticket for the next trip to Europe. I am debating returning to the UK or trying Spain or Italy.

Is the camera the same one you used on your U.K. trip (I clicked on that link when I saw how good your France pictures were). The color is not as dramatic on the U.K. trip--is that just because of the location or did you do something different on the France trip? I was thinking different brand film, slides versus prints, different developer, etc.--but I guess none of that pertains since it is digital. Pardon all the rambling, but some of the France pictures are that eye-popping color that always seems elusive to me.

Keith~~thank you for sharing your wonderful pictures and trip report.

I loved your trip report and pix, Keith, and they certainly brought back memories to me! My husband and I love Avranches, which we found 25 years ago searching for a cheap place to stay near Mont San Michel.<BR><BR>I'm surprised they kept your corkscrew because I just looked at the St Dept travel site and it said you could carry on corkscrews, nail clippers, etc. Guess not. I wasn't going to tempt fate anyway.

Great report and pictures. I am definitely going to check out the bike tours thing for our trip in May. Thanks

Thank you so much for sharing your trip - it was just what I needed on a very cold, dreary, muddy and wet April day!

qtr,<BR><BR>Yes it is the same camera. Always a chance I had a better hand at adjusting contrast and brightness of the shots when preparing the jpgs this time.<BR><BR> Keith

Keith, our family will have roughly 10 days to visit Paris and Normandy - what would you have done with the extra time?

Keith,<BR>Awesome trip, great commentary and pictures. Thanks so much for sharing with the rest of us!<BR>Katie

Keith, Thanks for bringing back our memories of the same trip the past summer! We had almost forgotten how nice it was!

&gt;Keith, our family will have roughly 10 days to visit Paris and Normandy - what would you have done with the extra time?<BR><BR><BR>I had only 4 1/2 days, so that is a _lot_ more time<BR><BR>Paris: the Louvre Museum; Sacr� Coeur &amp; neighborhood; a half day trip out to Giverny; more time walking the neighborhoods.<BR><BR>Normandy: Cherbourg Peninsula; eastern Calvados.<BR><BR>Brittany: I had previously visited St. Malo or would have gone there this time. I would also have liked to have visited some of the megalithic sites near Carnac<BR><BR> Keith