La Ferme des Perelles Saint-Vigor-le-Grand
Chemin des Perelles Saint-Vigor-le-Grand, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, Normandy, 14400, France
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Almost over from Laurie
... army and stationed in Finland. He said his father never talked that much about the war but did say that most of German people really didn't know how bad the Nazis were until after the war. I don't know, it's hard to hold everyone accountable but when you go to Dachau and see how close the camp was to the town, it's not really believable that they didn't know something bad was happening there. And then there were the riots against the Jews, ...
Pilgrimage part 2
... real towns. They were strategically important during the war, but are only a crossroad with a few houses and barns.
The little "towns" are usually less than a mile apart. You'll be driving, then there will be an open field for a few hundred yards, then a few more houses...and the new clump of houses have another name and are another town. They're all from the 1500-1600's, old rock structures that don't really seem real. You expect ...
Pilgrimage
... living off the land, and sleeping in barns was basically like being home. They both made it home to raise families and have lives after the war.
We walked the beach. It was low tide, and I tried to grasp the magnitude of where I was. I looked across a beach that was incredibly flat, and wide open. When the landings occurred, the beach was covered with hedgehogs, Belgian gates, those fence posts with Teller mines on the top of ...
Setting off for another adventure in France
... paid for it this time round. It is rural and it is idyllic but it comes with costs, which I shall lead on to at a later date. My job here is Head of Housekeeping and that basically means I run about checking up on all the General Assistant known as dogsbody's or more politely known as GA's. They are a lively bunch and I don't think took too kindly to me coming in a week after they had already got their feet under the table, to then get used to some ...
Nothing Like Being There
I hope each of you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving Day with turkey, trimmings, friends and family.
There's an old saying "Seeing is believing." I have read about D-Day and taught it for many years but there is no way to explain what it's like seeing the beaches. Did you know the beaches stretch for over 50 miles? The cliffs the American soldiers had to scale was even more dramatic ...


