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I will be heading to Europe for the first time in May and was wondering what lens range do some of you "seasoned" travellers find most useful?

My camera is a Nikon D70. 

Really don't want to carry a ton of gear.  Never having been to any of the smaller European towns and judging from some of the narrow streets and alleys that seem to be favourites of photographers I thought a wide angle zoom such as my Nikon 12 - 24mm lens would be useful.

Also, I thought my Nikon 70 - 210 zoom (an older smaller lens) would round out the gear side. 

However, do you think adding a mid range zoom such as my Nikon 18 - 70 kit lens would find much use?

1) a wide lens like the 10-22 for those old towns

2) a 24-70 with near macro for walking around

3) a 70-200

4) tele-extender

if you are gonna travel and only want to take one lens, i would grab one of this one, so long as you don't mind using sigma

 http://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/lenses_all_details.asp?id=3305&navigator=2

or this one from tamaron, it has IF so the lens length does not change

http://www.tamron.com/lenses/prod/28300_di.asp

or if you want to stick with nikon, this seems like a good lens

http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=5&productNr=2159

My recommendation is to go light. Buy a good point and shoot and carry it with you at all times. Learn how the focus and light meter thinks and work with it as your speed/aperture controls. Unless you are going specifically for the purpose of photographing I suggest the lighter the better. Large equipment and expensive stuff is a burden.

PS All photographs I have posted from Paris, Vienna, Bratislava and Prague were taken with a 2 mp cannon .

Thanks to everyone for their help.

To John - you better get your contacts treated so they won't steam up before you get to that nude beach in Rio!