Le Moulin du Couffon
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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!
... back in France. We had originally thought about renting a car and making a day trip out on our own. I quickly discovered that this would take too much time and we wouldn't really know where to go or what to see once we got to Normandy. We also had no desire to take another 'big bus' tour.
My web 'research' led me to a company called Overlord tours. They offered small, personalized tours. We would ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 3
... br> Cute Marine: "Ok, so maybe that's not what's in there."
His accent was so cute we didn't really care what was in that bunker. Ok, we kind of cared; we didn't end up going in that one. In most of the bunkers we just found large, empty, square rooms with low ceilings and poor ventilation. To get into the bunkers, (especially the damaged ones), we had to climb down slippery, muddy stairs that should be deemed unsafe for human travel. In almost every bunker, ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 2
... for 172.5 acres and contain almost 20,000 graves of our military dead. The cemetery only houses four women; all red cross workers who died trying to save the lives of soldiers on the field. There is also only one person buried here who did not die in WWII. TDR's eldest son, Quentin, died in WWI, but the family wanted him to be buried with his younger brother, Teddy Jr., who died during the D-day landings. Teddy Jr.'s grave marker is unlike most of ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 1
... teasing us because we were taking pictures of everything, and we both said it was so we could post the pictures on our blog. Of course, I am a picture taking fiend regardless, but I wasn't about to tell Jane that. After that, Haley and I found out that we had a lot of other things in common, like the fact that we love to explore new places and have cool adventures, and, of course, to blog. We found out that we don't live too far from each other; she's from Boston. Over ...
Amenities
- Free parking