thoughts, tales and travels
It’s a cute little stop on our cruise on the Seine. We climbed a hill to the remains of the castle Chateau Gaillard, built in the late 1100s by King Richard the Lionheart. We both survived the climb, but I needed a nap afterward.
A misty morning. . . turned into a beautiful cruising day.
Monday, October 26. St. Wandrille founded this Abbey in 649. Yes, that’s 649, not 1649. The Vikings sacked and burned it in 852. The present Abbey Church was reconstructed in 1969. It is still an active Benedictine community, and Benedictines believe in supporting themselves. They earn their money by restoring...
Monday, October 26. Honfleur is a port town dating back to the 9th century. The composer Eric Satie lived here, and Monet painted here. It’s a charming small town, perfect for a walking tour, but the cobblestones were hard on my knees.
Sunday, October 25. Today was a long bus ride to Normandy, where we will board our ship. We stopped in Caen for a delcious lunch. Caen was bombed twice during World War II: first by the Nazis to take France, then by the Allies to take it back. The town...
We arrived early to our hotel outside Paris, so our guide took us to Senlis, a lovely Medieval village about 30 minutes away.
at Alton Baker Park Double-crested cormorant, common merganser, and glaucous gull sharing a log. It wouldn’t be unusual for several cormorants to be stretching out their wings to dry on this log. If we saw the merganser swimming by, that wouldn’t be uncommon either. Gulls fly over from the nearby...
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