Moulin De Hard Bayeux
Route de saint Paul du Vernay, Subles Bayeux, Basse-Normandie, Normandy, 14400, France
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Almost over from Laurie
Well it is hard to believe we are at the end of our excellent adventure. Let's hope the trip to the airport and turning the car in are in eventful. Turning the car in when we got to Munich was a nightmare. The address on the rental agreement was a blocked off car park and munich is no place to be driving if you know where you're going, let alone if you have no clue. The whole car thing there was a bit difficult but it's over and all good and ...
Pilgrimage part 2
... national guard, there were monuments everywhere. And it is quite clear that the people of this area of France have not forgotten what happened here and the sacrifices made by others.
We arrived at Pont Du Hoc. This was a cliff top gun emplacement that was attacked from the sea by U.S. Army Rangers. The area was shelled to hell and back by 16 inch naval guns. The craters still exist and haven't been filled or fixed. The entire area is ...
Pilgrimage
... on D Day. Omaha, an American beach saw, if I recall correctly, around 4000 dead on D Day.
The opening in the cliffs at Arromanches made the perfect place to bring ashore supplies, vehicles, and troops. From June of 1944 to November of 1944, most everything used came ashore there. They built the Mulberry harbors in England, floated them to France, assembled them..............a huge Engineering feat, and a structure, when ...
Setting off for another adventure in France
... to staff that once the trays were all set up and covered to "please not touch any of the cheese, meat platters on trays as they were expressly for the breakfast for the customers"... Just a little bit of cheese won't hurt anyone and no one will notice if I take it..just...very.....carefully....****, suddenly unbeknown to me from out of nowhere a very deep filled tray of strawberry yoghurt which Roland had to make as we couldn't buy
strawberry ...
Nothing Like Being There
... them in video or photographs. . Imagine getting off of a ship carring pounds of gear; finding yourself in water up to your neck and being shot at from cliffs. If you made it to the beach, you would have to somehow make it across a beach wider than several football fields while dodging bullets, land mines and other obstacles. On June 6, 1944, 2500 American soldiers died on Omaha Beach, ...

