Chateau Versailles
2015年5月29日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 16 °CBecause I knocked out the main tourist spots on Thursday I figured I'd check out Versailles and Roland Garros on Friday. Turns out you can't get walk-up tickets for the tennis so I spent the day atもっと詳しく
Because I knocked out the main tourist spots on Thursday I figured I'd check out Versailles and Roland Garros on Friday. Turns out you can't get walk-up tickets for the tennis so I spent the day atもっと詳しく
Saturday is the trip to Normandy. It's a 2.5+ hour bus ride each way and 14 hours total. Caen is home to a really impressive museum covering the pre-WW2 situation in Europe, the invasion at Normandyもっと詳しく
A team of 200 Rangers climbed the cliffs here to take out 6 heavy guns that could reach Utah and Omaha beaches. The Germans had moved the guns back into an orchard to save them but the Rangers foundもっと詳しく
Impossible to imagine what the American soldiers faced crossing this beach and looking up at the cliffs above. Omaha was the toughest landing spot.
Over 9000 Americans are buried here, one of many American cemeteries in France. Can't really attempt to describe it in just a few words.
Site of de Gaulle's return from exile after D-Day. Part of Juno Beach.
Canadian landing site, much flatter spot than the Americans had.
Evening after the Normandy tour, walking back to the hotel.
This is basically the mayor's office, the central square of historical, "old" Toulouse.