Hotel Otelinn Caen
Avenue du Marechal Montgomery Caen, Basse-Normandie, Normandy, 14000, France
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Nothing Like Being There
I hope each of you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving Day with turkey, trimmings, friends and family.
There's an old saying "Seeing is believing." I have read about D-Day and taught it for many years but there is no way to explain what it's like seeing the beaches. Did you know the beaches stretch for over 50 miles? The cliffs the American soldiers had to scale was even more dramatic ...
Normandy
... was a cloudy, gloomy day--appropriate for the somber visit--when we went down to the shores of Omaha Beach. After watching a brief documentary about the D-Day invasion and reading about the destruction that took place there over seven decades ago, it was eerie to walk along what is now a very calm, deserted beach. I just about lost it reading the hopeful letters the young, American soldiers sent home; and seeing the ...
EURO-RAIL Adventure - Normandy
... to take an overnight train to Nice, France where we'll spend several days before heading west along the southern coast of France. We'll post photos as we travel. Bill calls this a "hybrid" hiking trip through Europe. As Kathryn and John did for two months this past summer, Bill and Lorraine will basically backpack through Europe using the EURO RAIL pass. But, instead ...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Normandy
... hitchhiking has in the states. We were somewhat embarrassed to put our thumbs up in the first place. After a few friendly denial waves from passing cars, a small red car with an older Frenchman stopped to ask where we were going. He was very friendly and excited to find out we were American. He spoke no English and through our broken, limited French we made out that would take only part of the way, as he wasn't going to Bayeux. In the car ride, I ran out of ...
Normandy's D-Day invasion
... an hour to explore the boat before their curfew. After that I stayed up a little later with some of the leaders. In the bar we met a group of men and women who had just got back from fighting in Afghanistan.
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