Spending the day at Claude Monet’s home and garden at Giverny. Many of the painter’s most famous works depict the water lily pond and surrounding gardens found on the property. Monet first spotted the small village that he came to call home while passing by on a train. Not long after, he relocated his family from Paris, and the rest is art history.
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At Monet's Water Lily Pond
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Thank You, Readers!People often ask me which is my favorite out of all the books I’ve written, and I always reply that books are like children – you love them all equally but differently.
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A Winter in Paris“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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Welcome to the Podcast!Blog description: Tony Castro's America is author Tony Castro's loose cannon podcast in which he and his guests swing from the heels about everything -- from baseball to Hollywood, politics to pop culture, Americana to the Third World. Tony is...
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Evening in Paris!A little walk near our apartment. Arche de Triomphe in the distance. Just don't get anything close to this in LA. At Place de la Concorde.
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Visiting With Napoleon at VersaillesAlthough Napoleon is prominently featured at the Palace of Versailles, he did not reside in the château. But the apartments were arranged and decorated for the use of the empress Marie-Louise. Versailles also features The Coronation of Napoleon in Notre...