Chateau La Cour Culey Le Patry

... there. It was beautiful, haunting, and eerie to see the sight of where the troupes landed on D-Day. When I was in the museum, I was listening to an interactive audio recording of soldier’s experiences from D-Day, and the first button I happened to push was of a soldier from Mt. Vernon, IL! What a small world. To climb down to the actual beach part of Omaha Beach took awhile. It’s ...

... at each scene on the tapestry. Without it you would find it hard to depicher the story and miss the little details which bought the tapestry to life.
The town of Bayeux itself is gorgeous and miracouslouly escaped WWII bombing...even though it was only 10km inland from the D-Day beaches

... we drove past Courseulles code name Juno Beach and onto Arromanches code name Gold Beach and where the famous Mulberry Harbour was built.

The Mulberry Harbour was made by the British. Over a dozen old ships on their last voyage were intentionally sunk as the foundation of the harbours break wall. Several dozen extremely large concrete blocks which were transported across the seas ...

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.

... many. My French guide made the comment as we explored Normandy... "I may have been speaking German now to you if it were not for those that fought here." Their sacrifice affects many, and touches many... as my guide gave us the details of the American Cemetery, the Australian man next to me had to excuse himself. There is not much else to say, but, Thank you.

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... couldn't see the 1/2 pitcher of damson vodka that she couldn't fit in a bottle previously. Lo and behold it was in the cake! Susy had not been around when it was made and mistook the directions of 'half jar of damsons' to mean this container and not the jam jar. Needless to say the cake was splendid and we all had second helpings! :)

Spent an afternoon doing some grueling work - burning brambles. Some other poor sap helpx ...

... No they're not..."; I was thinking we were thousands of miles from home, in a French Roman Catholic church where no one knew us...  I find Merina, and, sure enough, a senior member of the parish has requested that she read.  The exchange apparently went something like this:  "Can you read?", "Yes", "Good, here's the reading" (all in French).   So, Merina had about 6  minutes to practice the reading from Isaiah, but we didn't ...

... to watch a short film telling the stories of a few of the men buried there. We went out and walked around the cemetery for a while. Christoph told us that the numbers on the back of the grave markers are the dog tag number of the soldier and that the rows of crosses and stars of David make a straight line either across or in a diagonal no matter where you are looking from. The cemetery isn't arranged in ...

... Mulberry B." From Arromanches, we ventured along the coast in the direction of Omaha Beach; our next stop was a series of German gun emplacements. The unique thing about these guns, some which remained in their "bunkers," were that they could fire in a range of 12 miles! This meant they could launch shells at the landing beaches and ships at sea. Thankfully, these guns were not able to be employed by the Germans at the time of D-Day; who knows what may have happened ...