After finally getting out of Paris, albeit by bus not river boat, the monkeys arrive in the ancient city of Rouen. Here we were to board another ship, the sister ship to the AMA DANTE, which had been our house boat on the Seine in Paris for four days. Our new home, the AMA LYRA, […]
Kongo visited the American landing beaches at Normandy. It was bitterly cold with a fierce wind. Bursts of rain bombarded the tour group. The sea roiled at high tide. As we overlooked Omaha Breach you couldn’t help but be awed by the magnitude of the accomplishments of our father’s and grandfather’s generation. So many young
In the sleepy little village of Giverny, near the town of Vernon, the famous impressionist artist Claude Monet spent half his life. Many of his iconic works were inspired by the beautiful gardens he cultivated alongside the River Seine. Monet moved here in 1883 and remained until his death in 1926. Even in his lifetime
So, here’s the rub. The monkeys are stranded in Paris. I know, I know…there are worse places to be stranded but being stranded anywhere when you’re halfway around the world from home after paying a lot of bananas to be doing something else is not fun. After four days of touring Paris, Kongo boarded his
During the Middle Ages, Latin was the most predominant language spoken along the left bank of the Seine River near the Sorbonne University. In those days, all the university courses were taught in Latin so you had to speak Latin to get around there. Hence the name: Latin Quarter. And speaking of the Sorbonne, it’s
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