Juno Beach Centre Normandy

A mai napon nagy fába vágtunk a fejszénket, mert egy vezetővel végigjártuk a Normandiai partraszállás főbb helyszíneit.
Kedves férjuramtól eloroztam a gépet, hogy az én laikus szememen keresztül láthassa és olvashassa mindenki a túránkat.
A szokásos kiadós reggelink után kb. 9 óra felé megérkezett John a vezetőnk. Igen, jól …

Normandy is such a wonderful place. It's beautiful here....sort of like the outer banks of NC were 40 years ago. Still remote, but with enough history to make it interesting to be there.

We met a German guy while bunker hopping.....he and Laurie discussed issues of the war from different perspectives. His daughter is married to a football …

Arrived in Caen, finally. Rented a car and headed to the Caen Memorial. Left Caen and went to Beny Sur Mer to visit a Canadian cemetery. The cemetery is very well taken care of, peaceful but a lot larger than expected. Continued on to Juno Beach, where the Canadians landed on D-Day and visited the Juno Beach Centre. Drove to Arromanches where there …

Our train took us from Lausanne to Bayeux, France through Paris. We had to change from one train station to another one a few miles away by using the Metro (subway). It seemed pretty scary but it all worked out very well (and quickly) since there were lots of signs.
When we got to Bayeux we had supper at a small cafe beside the train station. …

Veules-les-Roses naar Courseulles-sur-Mer. Deze morgend rond 8.30 vertrokken richting Courseulles-sur-Mer. Tamelijk bewolkt en mistig in de morgen, maar reeds rond 10.00u zeer zonnig en warm. Vanuit Veules-les-Roses vertrokken via Fécamp, Etretat, Le Havre (via de pont de Normandië) naar Honfleur, Trouville naar Courseulles-sur-Mer. We …

Courseulles-sur-Mer naar omgeving van Barfleur. Nog maar eens opgestaan met bijzonder zonnig weer! Omstreeks 9.30 u was het al 18° In de voormiddag een ganse rit gemaakt langs de kust via Arromanches, Port en Bessin, Grandcamp, St.Marie de Mont, Ravenville, Quettehou naar Barfleur. Een rijk begroeide landelijke streek vol appelboomgaarden en …

I awoke with dawn, as was the trend for this trip, and virtually immediately hopped onto the bike. I tip headed down the road and into the village of Martragny after which the château was named. The views were phenomenal... having played games and seen movies set in this place and season left me totally unprepared for the staggering beauty of this …

... Juno Beach is about a 8km stretch of the coast centred around the town of Courseulles. This is also the location of Canada's Juno Beach Centre. It only opened a couple of years ago so the displays and such are still in good shape and there is a feeling ...

Courseulles-sur-Mer is the small seaside village where the Canadians landed during D-Day and is also home to the Juno Beach Centre, a Canadian museum celebrating Canada and it's effort to end the war. There was a steady stream of Canadians and other ...

... is actually very beautiful. I can see why the locals might rather have kept their camp ground where the Canadians built the Juno Beach Centre. Images of Canadian boys being cut down along the shore were in my mind as I looked out and imagined all the ...

... ; We shared a taxi to the bus station and then took a very inexpensive city bus to Courseulle-Sur-Mer to visit the Juno Beach Centre and see where the Canadians landed on D-Day.  The Centre was very interesting and informative.  I would like to ...

... if any were suspected. Most emotionally I saw a child on Juno Beach who topped his sandcastle with a Canadian flag. We went to the Juno Beach Centre and were kicked out after 4 hours of looking at the history of Canada and its role in the war. Grandpa if ...

... , we drove from Arromanches to Courseulles -- a short drive of only a few kilometers. Our first destination was the Juno Beach Centre (http://www.junobeach.org/main.html) -- dedicated exclusively to the Canadian Forces actions and sacrifices during the ...

... Beach Centre in Courseulles-sur-Mer in the late morning.  We began our time in this area with a tour of the Juno Beach Centre, an impressive museum dedicated not only to Canada's role in the D-Day landings, but the entire Second World War.  ...

... " so many people tell me.  "Unless you piss us off" I sometimes respond with a grin.      Unfortunately, Juno Beach Centre was closed for all of January so I didn't get all the details.  Most museums were closed for January in ...

... the beaches of Normandy. After a ways we decided to take the more scenic route from Honfleur to Courseulles sur mer to see Canada's Juno Beach Centre and the beaches of WW II. We didn’t realize that June 6, D-Day, is still a huge deal in France, ...

... walkway about the storming of the beach and the great many who lost their lives.  We then go to the Juno Beach Centre (the centre is funded by the Juno Beach Association and not the Canadian Government).  It is called The Canadian Museum on ...