Kyriad Caen Centre
1 place de la Republique Caen, Basse-Normandie, Normandy, 14000 , France
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D-day to abbeys
Caen has such a lot of history. In one of the abbeys we visited William the conqueror was buried.
From Caen i went on a tour to the D-day beaches. the amount of planning that went into those landings is amazing, yet very sad with how many lives where lost. in the American cemetery they have a wall with the names of all the missing. They add a …
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Nothing Like Being There
... was impossible, they built the Atlantic Wall all along the west coast of Europe. Did you know there are 77.000 German soldiers buried in Normandy? Even though the allies lost a lot of men, the Germans suffered the most casualties. I hope each of you get to visit this site at some point in your life. We as Americans owe a huge debt to the families of the young men who fought for our freedoms.
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Normandy
... in a tiny cottage between Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc.
We had our croissants and cafés early on Saturday morning before driving to the marshland surrounding le Mont Saint Michel. The tiny island of 42 inhabitants and a huge Gothic monastery is inaccessible during high tide. Being the Disney child that I am, I associated the Abbaye (Saint Michael's Abbey) with the castle from Beauty and the Beast. The high flow ...
EURO-RAIL Adventure - Normandy
... by mines. Jim Maloney was always very proud of being part of the invasion forces and proud of the crew members aboard the ship. In fact, Jim and Lee Maloney used to attend almost annually reunions of the ship on years when they were able. As you can see from a few of the pictures below, the name "SUSAN B. ANTHONY" is itched forever in the Naval Memorial at Utah Beach.
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WW2 sites and museums Part 1
... bunkers that are in the sand hills. A large cross stands with the flag to honour those who died and survived the conflict. It is hard to believe that all this history is on show for us and we are here looking at it.
It is now around 7pm so we take the beach road back to Caen thru some really small and scenic towns with very small streets and some are one way !!!! On the road we decided to head back to Caen for a quick dinner ...



