Monkeys in Quarantine
A touch of stomach flu in Sète, a negative norovirus test, and forty-eight hours of protocol. Cannes and Monaco went by outside the balcony rail.
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France
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Rouen Cathedral
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,
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Normandy Beaches
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
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Monet’s Gardens At Giverny
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
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Walking (Not cruising) Monkey
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
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