The old maritime city of Falmouth, England...St. Peter Port, capital of Guernsey...Cork and Dublin, Ireland's two largest cities. They offer a cross section of European history spanning three thousand years, arrayed along a crescent of turbulent water linking the English Channel to the Irish Sea. I passed this way in the summer of 2004 with my cameras, and offer you this interpretation of what I found there.

This is the first of three articles embracing a cruise to European ports. In the next article we will visit the French ... (more)