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Day 3: Normandy
I really don't even know how to describe what we saw and did today. We caught a train to Caen and then rented a car, driving up the coast of Normandy to follow Grandpa DeAngelis's WWII path. We stopped first at Omaha Beach, despite the fact that grandpa wasn't there, because of the historical and emotional significance. We walked through the museum, watched a short video, then walked around the memorial and the cemetery ...
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... la meilleure vue qui existe). Il se trouve au 12e (je croix) étage).
Delphine est super et honeste. Elle me disait, que la ville n'a pas beaucoup à offrir est je dois aller voir la côte. Et c'est ce que je fait le lendemain. 8heures et 15 minutes par vélo. Je suis très content, que je peut être assis dans le train ici. La campange est tellement belle et je ...
The D Day beaches of Normandy!
... take the train from Paris to Bayeux, a trip of just over 2 hours. Feeling fairly confident in our ability to travel 'independently' we hopped on the train, managed a change of trains in Caen and were met by our guide, William, at just after 9 am. We would spend all day, just the six of us and William, taking in as many of the sites as possible. Unlike our previous' big bus' tour we had William all to ourselves ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 3
... to be one, flat piece of land, broken up only by machine gun nests. It's strange to think that, at one point, this place was an active base filled with soldiers going about their military life; they slept here, ate here, fought here. And now, this place is a shadow of what it once was: a ruin of an event. The place it used to be whispers through the wind, over the hills, down into the craters, and through the damp concrete.
Heading back to the bus, Haley and I were ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 2
... it's old women laying flowers at the stones of men they still love.
Walking through the cemetery it is hard not to be overwhelmed by the shear number of gravestones, all white, all the same. I didn't realize until we got there, but all of the stones have names written on them. On each stone is the name, rank, birth place, and death date, of the person buried beneath it. For some reason, until I walked between the countless rows ...
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