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Day 3: Normandy
... any night! We patted the dog on the way out and wished the family a wonderful night. I'm not sure they understood what we were saying, but they smiled anyway. A train ride later, we're back in Paris. Tomorrow, Dad and Tom will travel to Metz to see another city that grandpa was in, while Brad and I see more of Paris. We'd go too, but Dad and Tom have an extra day on their train pass due to a logistical error on my part, so they ...
The D Day beaches of Normandy!
... take the train from Paris to Bayeux, a trip of just over 2 hours. Feeling fairly confident in our ability to travel 'independently' we hopped on the train, managed a change of trains in Caen and were met by our guide, William, at just after 9 am. We would spend all day, just the six of us and William, taking in as many of the sites as possible. Unlike our previous' big bus' tour we had William all to ourselves ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 3
... to the rest of we tourists. Point-du-Hoc is, (was), a vitally important German base atop a cliff, (the point), which, on D-Day, was extremely difficult point for the Australian and Canadian rangers to take. In the film we watched in the museum, there was footage of the rangers scaling the cliff from the bottom with hooks and grapples, taking fire as they tried to basically free-climb the vertical cliff. Today, what remains of the base is open to the public as a historical ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 2
After the museum, we took a ten minute drive through some tiny village streets, (in the huge coach bus), to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. This is where all of the American soldiers are buried who lost their lives during the D-day landings and and ensuing operations. The cemetery was established by the U.S. First Army in June, 1944, and was the first American cemetery on European soil in WWII. The seemingly endless rows of white ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 1
A few weeks ago, 14 adventurers took off on a journey in a giant coach bus, to the chilly and coastal land of Normandy, France. Ok, really it was 12 of we AIFS students, our cultural coordinator, Jane, and a our bus driver, Jose. We began our journey at 8am on Saturday, 10/20/12, and headed north. Our first stop, two and a half hours into the trip, was the Second World War Museum in Normandy, dedicated to the lead up, event ,and aftermath of D-Day and WWII. The museum has ...
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