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We've started assembling documents, shoes, outer wear, hiking stuff, city stuff while wondering about the weather, and our companions on the hike. We have airline tickets, train tickets and trusty oldLue lisää
We've started assembling documents, shoes, outer wear, hiking stuff, city stuff while wondering about the weather, and our companions on the hike. We have airline tickets, train tickets and trusty oldLue lisää
We are lucky. Our good friend Gordon chauffeurs us to the airport in his chariot and safely delivers us to RDU. He is also our photographer.
The airplane is outside the door and people are queueing up even though boarding won't start for 20 minutes and lining up doesn't get you to your seat any faster. Human nature I guess. If a lineLue lisää
Arrived in Paris at 6am Saturday morning with the city just waking up. A taxi to the St. Lazare train station costs over 100 euros so we took the airport bus. Quite a bit of flapping on our partLue lisää
Somehow we manage to walk to our b&b even though we don't have a city nap and Google maps isn't working and my smartphone is out of battery power. We are very tired but determined to stay awake untilLue lisää
Our room is on the second floor of This Old House. The stairway seems about two hundred years old. We meet the hostess and her dog, a golden retriever. Breakfast both days is dark coffee/fruit/severalLue lisää
Sunday morning we walk uphill to the Memorial de Caen, which was imagined by the Mayor of Caen and built in 1988 on the site of a German bunker. It's extraordinary and we spend the entire day there.Lue lisää
Caen was bombed by the allies on June 7th. More than 20,000 citizens died as the allied troops chased the Germans toward the eastern frontier. Much has been rebuilt, so the streets are now a mix ofLue lisää
Our guide meets us on Monday morning and the group gathers for introductions. Then we are off to Bayeau, a small village of about 10,000 which was NOT damaged in the war. It's the home of William theLue lisää