Burt's 2005 Visit to France

This is the path leading up to the monastery of St.-Michel, as you can see it has not become commercialized at all and there is plenty of room to walk around.

One of the passages in the monastery

Wherever you went in France there were always Japanese tourists. Except I did not see any Japanese tourists in Normandy including the American cemetery..

My given name is Burton Fisher. Burton is in France, Fisher's is where in Europe?

Gas is cheap? Only 1.28? Well that is 1.28 Euro, so multiply 1.28 times 1.19 to get the dollar value and times 4 because it is 1.29 per liter.

Where do you think we are going next?

Back in Paris the view from the Champs Elysees on the bus (bus driver cleaned the bugs off).

Picture taken at 11PM

This is a view from atop the Eiffel Tower, it is a good thing it was not too windy. As I tell my students, anything for the shot.

I tried to get a "better" picture but I missed their peak performance. Not uncommon in the parks in Paris.

We took a boat ride up the Seine, the people on the boat and shore cheered each other, I get seasick but I put on a brave front and dealt with the 30 foot seas.

Yet another castle, you have not seen too many castles pictures here because I got sick of them but I took this one because it is similar to the one I live in on Cape Cod. To those from Oklahoma that is ON Cape Cod, not IN Cape Cod.

My bed in the hotel in the village of Tours. The Tour guide promised the single men a fox in our bed, thus my hopes were that this would be an unforgettable night. This fox was like an English woman. English

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