Hotel Mogador Bayeux
20, rue Alain Chartier Bayeux, Basse-Normandie, Normandy, 14400, France
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Nothing Like Being There
... 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
... in a tiny cottage between Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc.
We had our croissants and cafés early on Saturday morning before driving to the marshland surrounding le Mont Saint Michel. The tiny island of 42 inhabitants and a huge Gothic monastery is inaccessible during high tide. Being the Disney child that I am, I associated the Abbaye (Saint Michael's Abbey) with the castle from Beauty and the Beast. The high flow ...
EURO-RAIL Adventure - Normandy
... 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 ...
Monet's Garden & World War 2 Beaches.
... to bumper as holiday beachgoers mixed in with tourists. Then to top it all off a sudden and violent late afternoon summer thunderstorm hit and turned the traffic snarls into a complete standstill. We gave up and headed inland a little to try and find a bed for the night. Eventually this was achieved in Bayuex at the Le Lion an old coaching inn which has entertained royalty and a good night sleep put us in a better frame of mind to go back to ...
Mountain, Monastery, Mulberry and Mussels
... Kathy was from Louisville, KY, traveling with her married couple friends, Carl and Rosemary. I think they were mid-fifties to early sixties, but I’m actually not the best judge of age. I ended up in the back of the van – Kathy and I sandwiched Carl in the middle.
I mentioned to Kathy that Dean was doing the IronMan in Louisville at the end of August, and had actually just finished the ...


