Making an impression: Take a five-star cruise from Paris to the sea

150th anniversary of Impressionism

It is along the serpentine course of the River Seine from Paris to the sea that the cradle of Impressionism is to be found. 

“Are they the kind of blurred paintings?” a friend of mine asked me once.

Describing Impressionist paintings as blurred is as good a definition as any, I suppose; especially when you consider that the term “Impressionist” was coined more as an insult: as a pejorative description of what one art critic at the time regarded as little more than a bunch of people who couldn’t paint properly.