Travel

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. France is the country, Lorraine is the province, Nancy is the city, and Place Stanislas is the city center. While visiting Benedicte and her happy family, Linda and I took the […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. Benedicte DuPont was a Rotary Scholar in 1995–1996. She had been a reporter for France TV and was studying journalism at USC. Linda and I were her host family. Benedicte did […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. The most horrifyingly interesting place in Paris could be mistaken for an ancient town fortress—100 acres surrounded by a massive wall with only two entrances, narrow lanes twisting among thousands of […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. On our fourth day in Paris, Linda and I went to church…two in fact…Notre Dame Cathedral and Sainte–Chapelle. After breakfast in our Hotel Beaugency in the Rue Cler neighborhood, we took […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. The Palace of Versailles is just ten miles outside Paris, but it is another world. The French kings Louis XIV, XV, and XVI and their consorts—Marie–Thérèse, Madame du Barry, and Marie– […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. Louis XIV believed in the divine right of kings, called himself the Sun King, ruled for 72 years as a Greek god, moved his palace from the Louvre in 1682 to […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. My wife, Linda, loves museums, especially those with art of the masters. That meant while in Paris we had to see the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay, which I […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. Paris is a city of monuments on every corner, in every park, in the medians of streets, down dark alleys, and even on tops of buildings. One could spend a lifetime […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. Paris is full of wonderful sights: historical buildings, fumbling tourists, curious signs, and strange vehicles. Here are a couple of the more interesting modes of transportation we saw while in Paris.

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. Thomas Jefferson is one of my heroes in history. I convinced Linda to put his places of interest in Paris on our to–do list. She happily agreed provided, “It won’t take […]