Hotel Mogador Bayeux

... 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. <br> The town of Bayeux itself is gorgeous and miracouslouly escaped WWII bombing...even though it was only 10km inland from the D-Day beaches

... Britain along with steel floating docks. These docks provided the gateway for suppliers from Britain to France. The idea was masterminded by Churchill and it was an engineering first and still mind blowing all these years later. Not knowing much about D-Day the excellent 6 June 1944 museum situated right was shore proved to be extremely informative and a history lesson that we will not forget.

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 trip to Normandy was a lot to absorb. It's hard to believe, that my grandfather Kelly was there on D-Day over 60 years ago.I certainly do not think I would have survived. I am thankful he did, I wouldn't be here. Nor my mother and her siblings, my sisters, or my nieces. His sacrifice has not only affected the existence of my own life, but the daily lives ...

... And it was back to Bayeux after that. We spent almost nine hours on D-Day! I thought &#8211; and I think all of us thought &#8211; that Ellwood was absolutely fabulous, and I think his tour was a real highlight of the trip. www.ddaybattletours.com<br><br>I went out with Yvonne to search for some dinner. We ended up meeting Lynn and Anne in the street, so we all went to a brasserie down the street. I had tagliatelle (yeah, I know: that's Italian), a Kir Normand, and ...

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... The Brits named their beaches after fish (ie - Gold, Sword), but the Canadians objected because Jelly didn't sound all that great. So instead, it was named after the Canadian General's wife.<br><br>Our guide also brought up the ill-fated Canadian-led mission at Dieppe - while none of the major objectives of that mission were accomplished, and also suffering huge casualties in the process, the mission resulted in later successes for the Allies. The ...

... had already recognized this approaching end to my trip as I was opting to stay in private rooms and enjoy &#8220;finer&#8221; meals since I had entered Western Europe, but nonetheless, arriving in Bayeux, from where my tours of the Normandy coast and its recent history would based, made me admit that I would soon be heading back home to Texas. <br><br>When I arose the next morning, I easily put my thoughts of returning home aside as I met up with Olivier with ...

... to protect the crops that grow well in the thick brown coloured mud - the only land mines now come from cows. No wonder these guys were called 'Band of Brothers' - no wonder they were so close; no wonder they knew each other like a twin would know one another. These lads were a special group and were singled out for the movie and justly so; however this was one group - there were many many similar 'groups' all over Normandy in ...