Time for some left-overs and other stuff from the latest European adventure. First, our old Olympus D-40 camera began to die so we bought a new one before we left. The old one took such tremendous photos for a point-and-shoot camera that it was hard to replace. The new one is a Canon G-10 and it has taken a bit to get used to it. We bought it in Canada and threw it into the bag for Europe and it has taken until now to learn its operation, so some of the Europe shots were not as good as the last camera could do. I am still dilligently weeding through the 347 page instruction manual.

All that having been said here are a couple of outtakes from a couple of weeks ago in no particular order. Below is our favorite olive oil store in Paris on the Ile Ste Louis from which we get a lot of oil and spices.





And in Bernkastle, Germany, I think I take about 10 pictures of this same hotel every time we go there, but the thing is so perfectly German it is too hard to resist; but what a view and such a pretty street.

And for contrast, the little church in Piesport about 100 yards to the right of where the LaVigne's house is on the Mosel River; with the hills a solid carpet of vines soaking up the sun.

In Horrenburg near Heidelberg, this is the LaVigne's rental house, just to show you the style of a nice 3 BR/2BA German house in the suburbs.

And to close out this collection, some metal art shot through a window in Paris; something everybody needs in the entry hallway, eh? I could probably run a caption contest for it and it would be hilarious.