The Eiffel Tower, as seen from the roof of the Tour Montparnasse
The tower gleams brightly
Notre Dame de Paris
The Père Lachaise cemetery, final resting place of many famous people
Mossy
Oscar Wilde's ostentatious monument
Martin & Christoph, my fellow tenors-in-crime
Paris is lovely in the evening
The Eiffel Tower, as seen from a Bateau Mouche
The tower gleams again
Arc de Triomphe
The tomb of the unknown soldier
The tomb of several million unknown people - the Catacombs
The Institut du Monde Arabe
Supermodern windows that cast a traditional shadow
Notre Dame de Paris, as seen from rooftop café of the Institut du Monde Arabe
Monet's own water lilies, in his garden at Giverny
Crazy blooms in Monet's garden
Neon explosion of colour
Rouen cathedral
The Clock Tower in Rouen
Rouen has a very well-reconstructed mediaeval city centre
In the clock tower museum, Rouen
Rouen cathedral, as seen from the clock tower
In Rouen cathedral
Geneviève & Paul's house in Let Petites-Dalles, our home for four days
The beach at Les Petites-Dalles
The beach at Etretat
Mother & children at Etretat
Etretat, looking the other way
I enjoy a spot of sunshine at Etretat
The famous cliff arch at Etretat
Martin & Anja take in the view
The Three Tenors
Etretat, one last time
Honfleur: so much prettier than Le Havre, on the other bank of the Seine
The famous wooden church at Honfleur
Typical small-town France
A delightful carousel in the marina
The marina at Honfleur
Probably Honfleur's narrowest house
Mid-morning at Les Petites-Dalles
Sopranos at rest
Les Petites-Dalles from above
Ruined sea defences above Les Petites-Dalles
I get stuck in to the blackberries - salty sweet
Luckily, there were also lots of ripe ones
Even Holger, our conductor, helped in the kitchen at Geneviève's
The Norman church at St Martin de Boscherville
The Markuschor München arrives
Ah yes, we're still in France then
Inside St Georges de Boscherville (confusingly, the church is named for a different saint from the town it's in!)
1000-year-old details in the stonework
France's last Romanesque church - in fact, it was finished in Gothic style
Zigzags and curves to represent the waters and the winds
A splash of colour
Adam achieves perfection (and hermaphroditism) in heaven
Splendid capitols - here come the band
...here comes the king...
...and those knights...
...and the saints go marching in
Unique intertwining of columns
The gardens of what was the abbey
Nadia catches some afternoon rays in a suntrap
What a fine cabbage!
St Georges de Boscherville awaits our evening concert
The Benedictine monastery at Fécamp - home to Benedictine, the liqueur
Nadia & Martin at the beach in Fécamp
Listening to the waves crash on the pebbles was mesmerising
The abbey church of Fécamp - actually a bit longer than Notre Dame de Paris - was the venue for our last concert of the tour
I love this piece by Alberto Giacometti, in the Centre Pompidou in Paris
It's called "disembowelled woman" - how delightful!
Fernand Léger's "Reading", in the Centre Pompidou
Francis Picabia's "adulation of the calf", in the Centre Pompidou
Juan Gris' "harlequin sitting with guitar", in the Centre Pompidou
