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Marche de Port en Bessin et retour..
Ce matin le reveil est difficile, mais nous devons aller a Port en Bessin acheter de la creme fraiche et des camemberts au marche. Puis Steph et Sam doivent aller chercher leurs noix de St Jacques a Courseulles. Ils nous deposent, Ced et moi, en chemin.
Nous faisons alors le menage, ...
A D-Day Education in Caen
... moving and informative. Certain films made events more tangible (e.g., D-Day), and others told stories (e.g., contributions of a relatively small British air fleet, memories from those involved in the Vietnam War). it's incredible what these camera men achieved. WWII resistance movent stories, such as that of Masha Bruskina (a young jewish Russian) who was publicly hanged for her ...
Too many lives lost
... even successful. As the day wore on, and we saw more and more beaches where the landings took place, the scope and scale of D-Day begins to emerge. It was an enormous act of bravery, courage, and planning at a horrible horrible cost. From Juno Beach we drove to the Canadian Cemetery. It was pouring as we left Juno, but the sun came out as we arrived at the Canadian Memorial and cemetery. It was very moving. Over 2000 soldiers who died on D-Day and the ensuing months are ...
Last entry...finally!
So totally my bad but I kind of forgot to put in my last entry till now :p. Buut, a lot has happened. My last day I almost got my life stolen from me in Amsterdam. It was terrible, these hoodlums tried to take my bag on the train (the contents of which being my entire life, my ability to get home). But they ended up dropping it at the last second. Thank ...
Oh my so much has happened....
... museum for sooo long. It was much more than I thought it was going to be, and my expectations were extremely high. I spent almost 5 hours inside. It was great. The hostel I stayed in was not that great, unfortunately. Bad part of town, and noisy neighbors aka bedmates. But I really only used that room to sleep in, the rest of the time I was out on the town, so I guess it was ok. Get what you pay for I guess. I did a ...