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Harbor at Honfleur near Le Havre and the Cruise Ship, the Bizet
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After an organized tour or two of Europe back in my younger days, I decided that this kind of travel wasn't for me. It was too rushed to form any lasting impressions of the places that I visited. I'm a slow impressor!
But Grand Circle's Seine cruise in 2003 changed my opinion. It followed the route that my grandparents, Johann and Magdalena Meier with their children had traveled in 1861 and that's what I wanted to see. The only drawback - my sister and I were traveling in a reverse direction. But perhaps that was fitting. My ancestors were never able to return to the "old country." Instead I made the return, almost from the point where they boarded a ship at Le Havre, back along the Seine river to Paris, still filled with magnificent structures at which they, peasant farmers from Germany, must have marveled.
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