Hotel La Garenne Bayeux

Meuvaines, Bessin Bayeux, Basse-Normandie, Normandy, 14960, France

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Nothing Like Being There

A travel blog entry by irejoyce

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... them in video or photographs. . Imagine getting off of a ship carring pounds of gear; finding yourself in water up to your neck and being shot at from cliffs. If you made it to the beach, you would have to somehow make it across a beach wider than several football fields while dodging bullets, land mines and other obstacles. On June 6, 1944, 2500 American soldiers died on Omaha Beach, ...

Normandy

A travel blog entry by kcseymour

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... pretty incredible to see and climb through the enormous impressions left by the Allies' air raid bombings. The views over the cliffs were breathtaking, and even more impressive is the feat that the outnumbered American troops achieved: scaling said cliffs with ropes and ladders under heavy artillery fire to defeat the Nazis. On a lighter note, we decided to break up our somber sightseeing with a calvados (apple ...

EURO-RAIL Adventure - Normandy

A travel blog entry by heartsofblog

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... B operator met us at the train station taking us to the lodging.

One of the greatest parts of our visit to the beaches of Normandy was seeing Bill's father's ship itched into marble on a large Navy memorial at Utah Beach. Bill's father, James Edward Maloney, was aboard the USS SUSAN B. ANTHONY during the invasion of Normandy. During the invasion his ship was sunk ...

WW2 sites and museums Part 1

A travel blog entry by jardines

... Our trip took us thru the french countryside with fields and farmhouses and of course the churches - we had 3 small stops on the way but arrived at Caen on time at 10.50am.

Walked across the road to Europcar and picked up our black Renault - it was a bonus as we found out that it had a GPS in the car, we didnt think that we would need it but during the day we found it very helpful.

Once Pete mastered the opening ...

Mountain, Monastery, Mulberry and Mussels

A travel blog entry by garypjackson

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... high tide had flooded the parking lot next to the island and several cars were damaged, despite warnings to visitors. The tide, as we were told, is quite dangerous. When it does raises, it comes in at the speed of 1 meter per second. People are warned that there is no way to outrun it. In fact, everyone is warned not to walk on the sand at low tide due to the pockets of quicksand. No one has to tell me twice. It ...

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