Hotel des Ormes Barneville-Carteret

... bit. The people are delightful, everyone being quite friendly and helpful. I must admit that sometimes I could not understand them because there is apparently a mixture of English/French/Jersey mix that is used and ordinary blokes on the street calling out to each other are totally incomprehensible to me. The view of the sea is just remarkable. This is one of those places where the boats are sitting on mud at low tide and up to 6-9' of water at high ...

found out yesterday that sky europe has ceased its operations. just great. that is one leg we had flying from Prague to Venice so now i'll have to find another way and i'm sure it won't be as cheap. well, if that's the only problem i run into for 4 months, eh?...

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Once off the beach, i go to the amphibian boat place and he tells me they closed the castle at 1 p.m. because by law, their vehicles are so high sided and flat sided that high winds will blow them over in the water. So had I stayed at the castle any longer, I would have been stuck there until low tide again! Asked him how deep it gets and he said, it goes over the walkway by several meters! wowzer.

... stood on the river bank to watch this fantastic display and its reflections in the river. We wouldn't have missed it for quids.

Wed.15th Jul. Viville - Cherbourg.
This part of France, the Charante, is my favourite part of the world. Lightly populated, unpolluted, beautiful countryside, lots of home gardening, gorgeous flowers, friendly people, great climate, a stress free way ...

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After the ceremony the town provided a lunch for us in the town hall and then we were in limbo for a while not knowing whether they were going to have the parachute jump this afternoon. You see, it had started to rain and the clouds started to roll in low and we just were not sure. When finally the word came, head to the DZ. That is drop zone for you non-military types.

A police escort took us out to the site and we got there with about 10 minutes ...

Took another fast ferry over to Jersey just for the day. The island is beautiful and has a lot of shops and restaurants. First thing we did when we arrived was take one of those little city tours on one of the open air trolleys that look like trains. Then it was time to find some food. We ended up going to a quick sandwich shop and ...

... heavy tank, a 155mm "Long Tom", and an LCVP Higgins Boat. There are at least two tobruks behind the parking lot in the field. Behind the museum, you can walk out through some old beach obstacles to the water. If your hungry, you can eat at the Roosevelt cafe next to the parking lot. On June 6, at 0640, twenty LCVPs brought in the first wave of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. They were set to land about 1.5m North of this location. But due to ...

... them did manage to get to the other side and join some of their troops and force the Germans out, thus securing the causeway. I will never forget reading this story and today we got to see the area where it occurred. Private 1st class, Charles DeGlopper, 23years old was the 6foot 6 BAR paratrooper, weighing in at 240lbs and a size 13 shoe. The rest of his squad was pinned down and actually they had no cover. They were taking losses from these Germans ...

... wasted. Later we find a map of Nantes in our Europe map, I cried again. Found a camper car stopover a little out of Nantes and stayed there. Cooked roast chicken n spuds, how cool?!?! So next day we leave for Bordueax for the 2nd time, got diverted, took a wrong road - a toll road of all roads (but luckily enough I did a handbrake turn and left the toll booth in a puff of smoke). Decided to stop about 60km north of Bordueax as it was getting late and figured we'd go ...

... and Afghanistan, will Americans ever visit those countries and remember the thousand of American soldiers that died there? Back to the story, we first stopped at Pointe de Hoc, this was where the most difficult landing of American troops took place. When you get to the beach you can see why, the sea comes directly up to very tall cliffs with about 20 feet of beach between the cliffs and the sea. When you are walking towards the cliff the terrain becomes uneven as there are ...