Chambres de Saint Meen Sainte-Mere-Eglise

Next stop were we stepping back in time even further...to 1066 to be exact and the battle of Hastings which is deplicated on a 70 m piece of embroidded cloth known as the Bayeux taperstry. On entry to the tapestry you are given an audio guide which provides a running commentry on what is ...

We had a busy day ahead so we set our alarm for 7am as its still dark at that time and so getting out of bed early has not been easy. I woke to the smell of coffee brewing and scrambled eggs in bed. The deal is I drive and Kim cooks.

After breakfast we walked over to the beach and on this beautiful sunny morning we found it hard to imagine the blood shed that occurred in 1944. From ...

The trip to Normandy was a lot to absorb. It's hard to believe, that my grandfather Kelly was there on D-Day over 60 years ago.I certainly do not think I would have survived. I am thankful he did, I wouldn't be here. Nor my mother and her siblings, my sisters, or my nieces. His sacrifice has not only affected the existence of my own life, but the daily lives ...

... looked like bacon). I took a bite before I knew they were gizzards, and it nearly made me gag. So I tried the duck stuff, which I thought had a very strange taste, so I ate the tomatoes and an awful lot of lettuce. Then the main dish came: more duck. Fortunately, it was served with a potato tart that was quite tasty. I did eat half of the piece of duck, but I really did have to choke down every bite. I was wishing I had asked Rolinka to book me a vegetarian meal: they wound ...

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... fire coming from over 5000 ships in the ocean. I walked down and touched the water.....memories of the scene from 'Saving Private Ryan" when the water seemed to have a red tint to it. We all thought this an incredible feat but now seeing it, an almost impossible one, yet somehow the Allies gained that foothold in France.

I took my plastic bag and scraped up some sand from the beach to take home. As I returned to the bus I also grabbed a small stone ...

... is where the two beachheads (Omaha and Utah) would link up. It was also important to the Germans. The battle here was fought from June 10 to June 14, primarily between the U.S. Airborne Divisions (the 82nd and 101st) and the 4,500 men of the Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6 (6th Parachute Regiment), commanded by Oberst Friedrich von der Heydte. The first stop is the Dead Man's Corner Museum. Find it: West on the N13, exit "Carentan Coutances" to get on ...

... along the roads which makes the drives a bit more authentic to the actual time. Stop 1: St Mere Eglese Our first stop was St Mere Eglese, a small town in the country and the first to be liberated. . It is also the home to one of the finest WW2 musuems which we spent some time wandering through and took in a short movie about the events of the area on D-Day. As you walk towards to village centre you hear old time war music which the locals play in the streets ...

... force side. It was very well done, so we thought. The reason why we were a little ironic about this museum is because it had very, very small coverage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sudi being Japanese ...