Montmartre is the artist district of Paris. I was really hoping to see all the painters in the Plaza and get a caricature done but it poured all day when we were there so that didn’t happen. This was really the only day that it rained hard enough to curtail our plans. The Basilique du…

Caudebec is another charming riverside town. We traveled to the Jumieges Abbey. The Abbey was built around 654 and was pillaged by the Vikings in the 9th century which basically left just ruins. It was rebuilt on a grander scale and consecrated in 1067. Enjoying the patronage of the dukes of Normandy, the abbey became…

Claude Monet lived in Giverny for 40 years, 1883-1926. His flower gardens and Japanese Garden are so gorgeous. They were still in bloom at the end of October!! A little disappointing was the fact that there are no original paintings at Giverny. Muse d’Orsay has the largest collection of originals but the museum of modern…

230 feet long, 20 inches high….an amazing story told in crewel embroidery of the Norman conquest of England. Long story short, William Duke of Normandy, the rightful heir to the throne, challenged Harold II, King of England in 1066. The tapestry was thought to be finished just a couple of years after this. There is…

We woke up early and hungry so headed down to the lobby for a bit of breakfast then back to bed for 2 more hours!!! Yesterday, in our search for a restaurant for dinner, we saw this place, Bouillion Chartier, with a huge line of folks waiting to get in. So we asked about it…

We begin our Seine River Cruise this afternoon. We dropped our luggage off at the ship and headed to the Impressionists museum, Musee d’Orsay. It used to be a train station so the building is beautiful and elaborately decorated. We did not think the museum was organized well and our audio tour guide did not…

Wow, what a magnificent site!!! Not too crowded today. We had skip the line tickets (highly recommended) so we got in fairly quickly. We rode the first elevator to the second floor with our guide and saw the beautiful sites of Paris from up high. The problem is that the wind was also up high…

Finally got some sleep last night. I can feel my face again!! We had breakfast with Robin and Neil and then we headed our separate ways. Robin and Neil took the Hop On Hop Off bus around town and Buzz and I had a walking tour scheduled. Our tour guide, Agustina was wonderful. She has…

We are on the move again!! It has been far too long since we did any International traveling and we missed it terribly. So time to remedy that situation. The flights over were uneventful, thank goodness. We arrived in Paris at 7:30am, got to our hotel (and our room was not ready yet) so we…