KNKX travel expert Matthew Brumley has spent a lot of time in France leading group travel.
He’s driven the roads.
He’s ridden the rails.
But this last trip was aboard a riverboat, cruising down the Seine.
“We started right by the Eiffel Tower and then cruised north through the countryside of Normandy, which was stunning,” Brumley said. “[We went] past these beautiful chateaus and horse pastures and rolling hills and apple orchards.”
They ended up in Le Havre, a port city on the English Channel, before returning to Paris.
Brumley said the trip offered a new perspective on the countryside. And not just for the visitors.
“We were cruising with some French jazz artists, one in particular, Franck Amsallem, a great pianist from Paris,” Brumley said. “Here he is, he’s a Parisian … and he was just talking about how he’d spent years in Normandy, and how he’d never seen it from the water … He’d never seen the countryside and the villages and the towns like Rouen and Vernon and all these towns. It was wonderful to see it through his eyes.”
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