Travels

I need to start with a bit of an apology.  This trip was (and is) about the impressionists, and I expected to include a lot of photographs of impressionist art. …

Today I want to share some random observations from our first eight days in Louviers. First, there are a few things I want to find out. For instance, you're tooling…

A must-see site for any lover of art in general and impressionism in particular is Monet's garden in Giverny, a village just a half-hour drive from Louviers, where we have…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…