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France
... a museum called Dead Man's Corner dedicated to paratroopers. Major Winters donated his army gear to that museum, it was pretty awesome to see! I learned a lot about the two artificial harbors created shortly after D-Day. One was built on Omaha beach but got destroyed on June 19th because of terrible weather. Another was built in Arromanches that was later named Port Winston (remnants from this port still exist, its so cool we can still see ...
The Loire Valley
... the horses over morning coffees on our bedrooms balcony, going for bike rides to the nearby village to buy fresh bread, doing some much needed pre-train trip laundry and swimming in our indoor pool (yes...our own indoor pool!)
Many thanks to Benoit for the tastes of local specialties and wine, and also for the rides to and from the train station.
Playing hunter-gatherer and a little pyrotechnics,
Robyn and ...
UPDATED: like the back of our hand
(Renee): Comments and photos on Rennes: It's a fair-sized city. For big city people, its OK, although I feel that Bee wasn't necessarily super impressed (LOL - too excited for Paris I think). I think it was a very clean city, and its part of Brittany, La Bretagne, which is quite a chill area of France (the north-west corner). The Bretons relate to ...
Castles in Brittany
... tourists, much more then I expected, but it was still I sight to see. It would have been even more amazing if we were there during high tide when it was surrounded with water, but since it was not we were able to walk around the back on to the sand and see a different side. It would also have been amazing to see at night time when it was all lit up. The castle contains the village houses (mostly tourists shops and ...
Retour à la maison
... situation périlleuse (oups ! pardon, si, un homme il y a 2 semaines, à la sortie de Paris...). Tous s'enquéraient de la suite de mon voyage, et ceux qui le pouvaient me déposaient exactement où j'allais, de leur propre volonté. Je ne demandais rien, mais ils le faisaient. Quite à faire des kilomètres supplémentaires.
Et combien d'entre eux m'ont offert à boire et à manger ? J'ai eu avec certains des conversations vraiment intéressantes, profondes.
Un copain a même fait ...