Monthly Archives: July 2018

If Three’s a crowd, is six a mob? As I’ve aged, I’ve become increasingly inclined to travel with a group when I travel overseas rather than making the effort to do all that planning on my own. I prefer small …

Technically it’s not a tapestry. Taking a temporal leap of a mere 153 years, brings us to 1064 and to scene one of the so-called Bayeux Tapestry depicting Edward the Confessor, then about 60 years old and without a direct …

We spent our final night in Le Havre Monday which meant that regardless of the choice we made that Tuesday morning our group had seen its last of that French port. You see, with the turning of the calendar from …

Somewhere there’s music. As I noted at the end of the previous entry, there’s another son of Honfleur whom the town honors. His name is Erik Satie. Born Éric Alfred Leslie Satie on 17 May 1866 in Honfleur, Satie displayed …

Église Sainte Catherine. If you were to look for one characteristic that every European city shares, I’d suggest you need look no further than having a church as one of its most important buildings – if not culturally and historically …