Azur Hotel Lisieux

This last weekend my program's group traveled to Normandy and Brittany. It was a very cool trip! On Saturday we drove from Paris to Caen, Normandy. We visited the Memorial de Caen, which is a museum/memorial from WWII. Caen was a city during WWII that was occupied by the Germans, and it was a major victory when the Allies were able to seize it. After Caen, we drove on to Omaha Beach to the American ...

Arrived at Ouistreham just before dark and found an Aire de Service right on the beach and this time it was free! The downside was it was right next to the ferry terminal and the 6am ferry to Portmouth the next day was kill the tranquilo the next morning. Kim's Maison du Scooby cooked up a storm. Pork fajitas on rice - delicious. I gave it 5 stars.

... The gear box was in need of some TLC. Kim came back to find me covered in grease and waste deep in Scooby. I am certainly learning my way around a car engine.
A quick pit stop via McDonalds for free internet to upload our blog and photos and then onto Ouistreham code name Sword Beach - the first of the D-Day beaches.

We started this morning planning to visit Honfleur and spend a couple of days here as it is so beautiful. But today it rains, so today it loses!
As the battery is flat too, we simply cast off and drove south west.
On the way out of Cite Europe where we took on some diesel we say a couple of hitchers, and as we were feeling in good spirits we picked them up.
They were quite chatty but after a while we were ...

TomTom is great, expect when you don't have the maps for the country you're in!
We have the full european DVD but loading all the maps onto the phone was one item that did not make it onto my big list of jobs to do before we left.
I still have the DVD with my but no DVD drive!
We have been navigating with googlemaps since ...

The first night was spent in a nice stop on the edge of the old port in Calais.
I've been here before when i did some sailing in my youth so i know it well.
It seemed safe enough as there must have been 50 motorhomes but there was a broken window overnight for someone!
We moved onto honfleur and found a nice stop 2Km from honfleur which was free and had a large football/basketball court for jake to play in

Well we peaked too early by picking this pitch first..beautiful Chateau which allowed pikey caravaners to take up residence in their gardens. Out of season so the pool and place generally were quiet - bouncy castle and horses to feed kept Lauren amused 24/7. We couldn't take advantage of the restaurant in the ...

... real reason for coming here was because of the proximity of the town to the Normandy D-Day beaches (Caen itself, like most of the towns and villages around here, was devastated during World War II). So tomorrow we up a gear and turn into full-time tourists. With an early start we'll hopefully get the bus to an area of France I, as something of a WWII buff, have always wanted to see. But before we sign off for now here are a ...

... t sink in the middle! Ok, for the positive, yes, the location was good. But the town was very small, and I would soon discover that it didn't even matter. I saved my complaints to spare us from wasting the day looking for another, much less affordable place. After all, we were technically staying in a room made for a triple just to have the bathroom in situ! Some may call me a princess for this bathroom dilemma we continue to face. However, I am willing to yield that criticism and not ...

... 16 dollars) and it also happens to be the most expenbsive bottle that i have bought in Europe so far. The cheapest was 1.60. In Bayeux, i was anticipating staying a lot longer than i did. Upon learning that the military museums in Bayeux, Caen, and the surrounding areas were all closed until March, my trip was automatically shorter there. The highlight there was the tour of the Juno and Gold beaches that me and a guy from Edmonton took. i didnt know what to expect from the tour ...