Abbé Prévost Tour, Pt. 1
The spring semester of 2016 I took a course at UNM entitled "The Novel", which was a study of 18th century French Novels. During this semester I was especially captivated…
Honfleur
Today we finished up our coastal tour of "Upper Normandy". The "Lower Normandy" coast is best known for a certain massive invasion of Europe 72 years ago. We visited that…
Fecamp and Etretat
Well, today was interesting, in some of those unexpected ways that seem to make up the meat of our vacations. Our plan was to visit two picturesque coastal towns and…
Louviers Museum
The region of Normandy celebrates the Impressionist era every three years, and every time a different theme is selected. This year the theme is portraiture, and the municipal museum in…
Chateau Chantilly
I couldn't believe myself last night--laid awake humming the old Big Bopper standard "Chantilly Lace". That's just wrong on so many levels. Today we went to the birthplace of not…
Arrival in Louviers
We have bidden farewell to Paris. We had a lovely stay at the Grand Hotel Champaigne, situated on a quiet side street about a five minute walk from the back…
St. Eustache and Marmottan-Monet
Every good Sunday in Paris starts out with great pipe organ music, and today was no exception. Our hotel is a 15-minute walk from the St. Eustache church: The church…
Paris and Food
Today begins our new adventure in France. We'll be spending a couple of days in Paris, and what is more Parisian than the Eiffel tower? For the last few weeks,…
A Parisian Stroll
The French have a word for it: flaner. Loosely translated, it means to stroll from here to there, unless we decide to detour to somewhere else, and it really doesn't…
The Louvre and the Music
Dec. 17 The first time we visited the Louvre, we had one of those great tickets--all the museums you could squeeze into three days in the middle of high tourist…