Tournon-sur-Rhône

And we just talked about that in episode 53.

Kulcum, Miltenberg, Les Andalées, Tournon, Pignal, Weiden, Dordrecht, those aren't necessarily the names that make someone look at an itinerary and immediately say, that's the cruise I want.

But those smaller destinations can completely change the character of a trip.

So instead of counting famous cities, I'd start evaluating actual days.

And here a little information must be given as to the primitive administration of this institution, originally half military and half monastic, to explain the new life which there awaited Lambert.

Before the revolution, the Oratorians, devoted like the Society of Jesus to the education of youth, succeeding the Jesuits in fact in certain of their establishments, the colleges of Vendôme, of Tournon, of La Flèche, Pont-le-Voy, Cérez, and Joly.

That at Vendôme, like the others, I believe, turned out a certain number of cadets for the army.

The abolition of educational bodies decreed by the convention had but little effect on the college at Vendôme.

Absolutely

... and, uh, it was with, uh, the owners of this wine shop in Tain l'Hermitage, uh, but it was in Tournon across the river.

And, uh, around three months before, I just said a joke to, uh, one of the brothers.

It's, uh, a father and his wife own this wine shop, and then three brothers own another wine shop, and they're all just kind of my adoptive French, and they're also Greek, so my adoptive French Greek family.

Provence, Roman history, food, wine, and all of those are excellent reasons to cruise there.

But then you reach Tournon-sur-Rhône.

This is another one where the setting really matters.

Tournon sits along the Rhône with a historic center, narrow streets, and a castle overlooking the river.

And here a little information must be given as to the primitive administration of this institution, originally half military and half monastic, to explain the new life which there awaited Lambert.

Before the Revolution, the Oratorians, devoted like the Society of Jesus to the education of youth, succeeding the Jesuits, in fact, in certain of their establishments, the colleges of Vendôme, of Tournon, of La Flèche, Pont-le-Voy, Cérez, and Joly.

That at Vendôme, like the others, I believe, turned out a certain number of cadets for the army.

The abolition of educational bodies decreed by the Convention had but little effect on the college at Vendôme.