Visit Monet’s House – From the Comfort of Your Own Julie Kalan April 10, 2020 2272 A Virtual Tour of Claude Monet's House While we all stay safely at home, it is a wonderful time to virtually visit Monet's incredibly cheery house. From 1883, until his death in 1926, Claude Monet lived and ...
Visiting Normandy – 70 Years after D-Day Julie Kalan May 29, 2014 5848 This year marks a significant anniversary in world history; seventy years ago Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, and changed the tides of World War II. It was June 6, 1944 when Canadian, American, a...
Beautiful Bayeux – a short distance from France’s Normandy coast Julie Kalan October 28, 2013 7163 Medieval Bayeux escaped WWII destruction and was the first town liberated by the Allies Sitting on the banks of the Aure River, in the heart of Normandy, Bayeux is a quiet treasure of cobblestone streets, half...
Impressions of Normandy Julie Kalan October 18, 2012 6346 After years of seeing reproductions of Monet’s work on the waiting room walls at doctor’s offices, I had developed a kind of Pavlovian response to the images. The very sight of water lilies made me bored, impat...
The Heavenly Heights of Mont Saint Michel Julie Kalan November 5, 2011 10805 At the foot of the abbey, this peaceful lane follows the contours of the mount. Credit: Julie Kalan “Mont Saint Michel is to France what the Great Pyramid is to Egypt.” - Victor Hugo, January 1884 Rising a...
