Location: Tours, France We started the morning by visiting Chāteau de Chenonceau, one of the most famous chāteau in the Loire Valley. There are all sorts of sordid, "soap opera" history here, and our guide - who is a medieval history PhD student - gave us many details. Like our visits yesterday you can see … Continue reading More Tours

Location: Tours, France Look! A double entendre (I am so very French)! I am talking about the tour I am on, and we are visiting the city of Tours, France. You get nothing but literary quality with Cruise Boy... We took a train from Bordeaux to Tours, jumped on a bus and started chateau visiting. … Continue reading Tours

Location: Bordeaux, France The ship made it to Bordeaux, France after five hours of steaming thru some very brown water. Maybe it's run off from all the wine disposed that did not meet their exacting standards? We "docked" right in the middle of town. I have the word docked in quotes because the ship just … Continue reading Bordeaux

Location: Bordeaux, France This lesson will cover packing for a world cruise. As I approached this cruise, I searched the internet for cruise packing hints. I found a lot of help out there, but mostly dealing with one-week cruises. Shoes I've worn Rockport World Tour Classics for over a decade as my standard work/office shoe, … Continue reading World Cruise Lessons – 4

En route to Bordeaux, France. Arrive on 14-May (a few hours) This was a first for this cruise. Seems Bordeaux, France is at the far end of a rather long delta/estuary and it will take over five hours for the ship to fight the river current to get there after leaving the Atlantic Ocean. So, … Continue reading Le Verdon