Novotel Bayeux
117 Rue Saint Patrice, Rond Point de Vaucelles Bayeux, Basse-Normandie, Normandy, 14400, France
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Artistic impressions and tapestries
We told Master X this morning that he had to wait for breakfast before having anything else after giving him a banana this morning. He promptly picked up the phone and mumbled something about 'mummy, daddy and banana'. After a bit of a slow start packing we were finally ready to check out. The man at the reception desk was laughing and said to …
It Snows Hard at the Blood Red Beach
From Mont St Michel we continued on to Bayeux, the nearest city to Omaha Beach. It was there on the sixth of June that fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands charged forward as their fellow brothers in arms were slaughtered before them; the white sands were painted crimson. We passed through the innumerable crosses and stars of David marking the …
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Nothing Like Being There
... them in video or photographs. . Imagine getting off of a ship carring pounds of gear; finding yourself in water up to your neck and being shot at from cliffs. If you made it to the beach, you would have to somehow make it across a beach wider than several football fields while dodging bullets, land mines and other obstacles. On June 6, 1944, 2500 American soldiers died on Omaha Beach, ...
Normandy
Looks like I'm a bit tardy reporting on my trip to Normandy with Sarah and Katie during a long weekend in late October--oops! Guess I'm picking up on the Spaniard's notorious habit for being late...
We picked a parfait weekend to tour the French countryside. In the absence of deciduous foliage in Spain, I was glad to get my autumn fix from the crimson and gold rolling hills of France's North-Western province. We ...
EURO-RAIL Adventure - Normandy
... B operator met us at the train station taking us to the lodging.
One of the greatest parts of our visit to the beaches of Normandy was seeing Bill's father's ship itched into marble on a large Navy memorial at Utah Beach. Bill's father, James Edward Maloney, was aboard the USS SUSAN B. ANTHONY during the invasion of Normandy. During the invasion his ship was sunk ...



