Leaving home
On out deck
Monday, July 6, 2026
Photos from out January 2026 Cruise. On the MSC Seashore from Port Canaveral
Friday, October 24, 2025
Videos From the Cruise on the MSC Fantaisa - October 2025
Our Room on the Fantasia - Room 16029
Rickshaw tour in Bari, Italy
Taps at Normandy
Dinner at BOUILLON RÉPUBLIQUE
Istiklal Street - the main tourist street in Istanbul
The Cathedral of Nortre Dame
The Hotel Marble - Istanbul
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Day 18
Today was the last thing that we wanted to do and that was a food tour.
We took an Uber to the starting spot and met our guide.
He walked us a short distance to a narrow pedestrian street
lined with shops on both sides.
For the next 3 hours, we ate our way through this district
of Paris and really enjoyed the tour.
The tour we had in Istanbul was wonderful; however, this
tour was not only wonderful, but we learned a lot about each of the foods that
we tasted.
We found out that our guide had a flat in the district and
after picking up some wine and sandwiches, he, at Barb’s urging took us to his
apartment.
He has been living there for 5 years and was still in the
process of renovating. That was an added
bonus.
After the tour, we found a money changer to change the Euros
we had from the casino into Dollars as our bank would not accept a deposit of
Euros.
Also, at one of our stops, they were cutting up meat and one
of the butchers had a very sharp knife.
We asked him where he got it from and we went to that shop and bought
one.
Next, we went into the second largest church in Paris and
mass was going on so we joined the people gathered for mass, we thought.
It turned out that it was really a funeral, so we left right
away. We have crashed weddings before,
but this is a first for us.
We forgot to tell you about collection in this church and
Nortre Dame – when they pass the basked there is also a reedit card machine
right on the basket!
We then took an Uber back to our room and at 6:00pm went out
for dinner.
After dinner, we came back to the room and packed for the mooning
when our driver will be here at 5:30am to take us on the one-hour drive to the
airport.
We are flying Air Canada to Montreal, and then switching planes
to arrive in Chicago at 2:44pm.
We have a Hertz car reserved, so see everyone soon. We are really looking forward to Friday with
the family.
Hugs from both of us.
There are more pictures and I will have to load them later.
Making their own chocolate - was it ever good!
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Day 17
We got up early to take an Uber to the train stations for an early mooring to Bayeux to meet our guide who would take us to Omaha Beach.
As we were early, we shopped around the quaint shops of the
main area and they met our guide and 4 others who were going with us.
Our guide was a recent French Air Force veteran and was very
knowledgeable about World War II.
To see and hear about the landing zone operation and hearing about the waves of all the solders to took this beach on June 6 was very emotional. the morning of the invasion, which was low tide, the each stretched 400 yards out from the cliffs and the sand was very, very hard so that the vehicles would be able to drive on the beach.
The problem was they were sitting ducks while trying to come
ashore in the first and second wave of thousands of soldiers.
Huge number of troops were killed until the third wave and
they had enough troops on the beach to start the taking of the country.
We then drove back to Bayeux and ate a lovely dinner. then we took the train back to Paris arriving at 11:00pm.
We took an Uber back to the hotel and went to sleep at about
midnight.
Tomorrow is our last day and we have a food tour.
When Barb chose Paris, we wanted to do three things.
One, see the Cathedral, Two was go to Normandy and three was to taste the food
of Paris.
The last item on our list, the The food tour, we will do
tomorrow.
Fish of the day
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