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June 19, 2018
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I don’t recall whether we’d set sail during dinner but certainly by the time of Tim and Jie’s concert we were well underway for the longest passage on the outbound segment of our river cruise. When we awoke in the …
June 15, 2018
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But what about the time machine? From my regular pre-trip research, I’d reached a reasonable conclusion regarding the reason the tour organizers had chosen to include Château de La Roche-Guyon in our itinerary. What I didn’t expect to see was …
June 15, 2018
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Under a cloak of great secrecy, the Allied powers had begun planning their assault on northern Europe as early as 1942. Still, by the fall of 1943 even the most obtuse German military leaders surely knew that a major attack …