The Belem
Image: ©Cqui - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10889466
The Olympic flame departed Athens, Greece, for Marseille, France, on Saturday morning, April 27. And how is it making the 12-day journey? On a three-masted 19th-century French barque, the Belem—in impressive tall ship classified as a historical monument. The captain and young crew all volunteered to make the voyage. Some 150,000 people are expected to welcome it when it makes port. So there it is: if you want to arrive in style, do it on a classy 19th-century French boat.
Hey! We’ve got two of those… (even if ours are replicas)