Day One Hundred Fifty Four - June 8 As the ship docks in La Rochelle to spend the day, we are still in Paris for the last few hours. Our return train to the port city is at 15:00. After two sunny warm days in the French capital the weather did not cooperate today. It is raining quite hard. We have 10:00am tickets for the Louvre so after a quick breakfast we head out just after 08:30 to catch the Metro. Armed with umbrellas and hoods up, it is off to the Louvre...

Day One Hundred Fifty Three - June 7 Day Two in Paris While Insignia was on a sea day, Janice, Joan, Richard (sorry but the shorter version of his name comes our inappropriately) and I were exploring Paris for the second day. An important fact - try to book any transportation prior to arriving at your destination. Our problem was that we had not booked a return train to the Port of La Rochelle for the following day and any credit card was not being recognized ...

Day One Hundred Fifty-Two June 6 Today we are in Honfleur, France and the drop point for those passengers wanting to go to the D-Day Beaches in Normandie (for trivia buffs what did the D-Day stand for) and to visit Paris. How appropriate it would have been to see the ceremonies in Normandie today. Both tours were full day affairs. We on the other hand decided to leave the ship with our friends Joan and Richard from Petaluma, California for three days and two n...