Domaine de l' Amiraute Deauville

... steep to get down to the shore, it&#8217;s hard to imagine how difficult the soldiers had it. Seeing the sight at Omaha Beach really made me feel proud to be an American. After the beach, we drove onward to Saint-Malo, which is on the coast, and is a walled city. We stayed at a cute little hotel, similar to a B&amp;B and had dinner at a nice restaurant, too bad I ordered my steak too rare&#8230;<br>

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. <br> 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.

17.08.09 Sarlat-La--Caneda N4 53.747'E1 12.747' 5eu for 24hrs here and 2eu for water. A new experience for us, this aire was controlled by credit card. To get in, one approaches, pushes a button, takes a ticket and the barrier rises. To leave, enter that ticket followed by your credit card. No need to enter numbers, the barrier rises. Sarlat is a pleasant town but heaving with us tourists. We had a look at the hotel we stayed in 8-9 years ago with Chris and Pat and ...

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!<br>As the battery is flat too, we simply cast off and drove south west.<br>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.<br>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!<br>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.<br>I still have the DVD with my but no DVD drive!<br>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.<br>I've been here before when i did some sailing in my youth so i know it well.<br>It seemed safe enough as there must have been 50 motorhomes but there was a broken window overnight for someone! <br>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

<br><br>I wanted to write a follow up to the whole swine flu incident to, as they say, set the record straight. Yesterday we learned from our tour director, Ralph, who has been traveling off and on with us the last 2 weeks that a gentlemen from Canada who was staying in the second tower in our hotel actually passed away the same day as Jim. It was confirmed that he passed away ...

... tour provided our group with dinner in the restaurant in the lobby. The starter was quiche lorraine, the main course was fish (bummer...) and potatoes covered in a white creamy sauce, and dessert was an apple tart. the region around Deauville does not produce wine like most of France but it does produce a lot of apples. The whole dinner was very good except ...

... a German stronghold and keep it for two days before reinforcements came in. The landscape is completely pot marked from all the bombings, and all the bunkers debris is strewn across the landscape. Very chilling. Next we went to 'bloody Omaha', the site of the most devastating attack, where about 10 000 American soldiers died. The cemetery here, with all its perfectly aligned white crosses made me shut up in awe and disbelief. Then we went along Gold Beach and ...