Well, Kongo wrapped up his latest European adventure with a final day in Lisbon. A break in the weather made for a beautiful day for the simian pair to see some of the sights they hadn’t been able to get to earlier as well as visit some of their old favorites. By this point in […]
Sailing south across the Bay of Biscay from the Bordeaux region of France, Kongo arrived at the beautiful port city of San Sebastian in the northern Basque region of Spain. Beautiful San Sebastian possesses wide, sandy beaches surrounded by wooded hills and a harbor filled with picturesque islands. Although Roman settlements from the early first
Kongo arrives in Douarnenez, a small town on the north coast of France. Not everyone was happy to see the monkey arrive in Brittany. As the ship dropped anchor a group of young cruise ship protesters lined the quay waving signs and shouting epithets. Later in the day, small boats circled our anchored ship to
A scant 28 miles west of Lands End, England lies the island group known as the Isles of Scilly. Kongo is willing to bet a few bananas that most of his readers (at least those in the USA) have never heard of these islands, much less actually visited them. After a rather rough passage from
This time of year the locals say you can only expect to see Mt. Fuji about twenty percent of the time. Fogs and clouds usually obscure the famous peak but when Kongo came here the sun was out and it was a clear (ish) day that got hazy in the afternoon. From sea the snow-capped
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