The French Impressionist painters have certainly made their impression on the two of us, and we jumped at the chance to study them and their art on their home turf, in southern France and Paris.

And so, in 1994, we joined an Elderhostel group and flew to Nice. For one week, we basically had lectures every morning and field trips every afternoon, visiting the museums and often the homes of Picasso and Chagall and Renoir and Matisse and other 19th century giants of the art world. (The next week we followed the same routine in ... (more)