On Foot in France

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Viaggiatore On Foot in France
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- 28 ago 2017, 07:15
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitudine: 163 m
- Stati Uniti North Carolina Township of Chapel Hill Dogwood Acres Edwards Mountain 35.84726, -79.0463335°50’50” N 79°2’47” W
Giorno 1
Packing challenge
28 agosto 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
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 old Rick Steves on Paris. Biggest challenge so far is getting hiking poles through TSA. We've concluded that checking an extra bag is the only assured way to make sure they travel with us. They are too long for our usual carryon roller bags. And, thank goodness for compression bags.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore On Foot in France
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- 1 set 2017, 16:30
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitudine: 10 m
- Stati Uniti New York Nassau County Meadowmere Park John F. Kennedy International Airport 40.63982, -73.7816740°38’23” N 73°46’54” W
Giorno 5
En Route
1 settembre 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
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.
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Viaggiatore On Foot in France
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- 1 set 2017, 16:44
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitudine: 10 m
- Stati Uniti New York Nassau County Meadowmere Park John F. Kennedy International Airport 40.63982, -73.7816940°38’23” N 73°46’54” W
Giorno 5
The Layover
1 settembre 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
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 line forms, stand in it. Meanwhile Bill is concentrating on the crossword puzzle off the day.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore On Foot in France
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- 3 set 2017, 09:58
- ☁️ 14 °C
- Altitudine: 22 m
- Francia Normandy Caen 49.18461, -0.3669649°11’5” N 0°22’1” W
Giorno 7
The French Connection
3 settembre 2017, Francia ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
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 part because the ticket machine would not accept our credit or debit card. We also try our 50 euro currency but it takes only bills up to 20. Nuts, we are both going crazy thinking we will MISS our train to Caen when a wonderful bus driver digs up change for us. Voila we are all set. It's an express bus so we zoom into early morning Paris which looks a bit seedy on the eastern side. Some homeless people sleeping in doorways and a lot of trash on the curbs. The area around Gare St. Lazare is deserted. The station is COLD but there's a Starbucks (!!) inside that's warm. Seems ironic that we are having coffee in an American chain instead of a charming cafe but we feel better when we observe that almost all of the clientele are French. Then to the train which is also an express and very nice even though we have 2nd class tickets. Departed and arrived EXACTLY on schedule. Public transportation is wonderful here we think!Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore On Foot in France
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- 3 set 2017, 10:20
- ☁️ 15 °C
- Altitudine: 22 m
- Francia Normandy Caen 49.18461, -0.3669649°11’5” N 0°22’1” W
Giorno 7
The Rest of the Day
3 settembre 2017, Francia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
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 until it's at least 10pm. So we walk the village. It's a festival day here with lots of people out on the street and there's even a carousel. Turns out that Caen is the home and military base of William the Conqueror. The ruins of his castle and fortress are center city. Many elaborate churches in town with spires and fanciful facades from 11thC to the days before the revolution when all the religious properties were nationalized.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore On Foot in France
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- 4 set 2017, 09:35
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Altitudine: 22 m
- Francia Normandy Caen 49.18461, -0.3669349°11’5” N 0°22’1” W
Giorno 8
Our Abode in Caen
4 settembre 2017, Francia ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
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/several wonderful choices of bread or croissants from the boulangerie in the neighborhood. This is a small town of only 100,000 residents which was bombed by the allies in the assault after D-Day as the US, British and Canadian soldiers pushed the Germans to the East. The town has been restored but evidence of the bombs and the occupation haunt this place still.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore On Foot in France
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- 4 set 2017, 22:01
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Altitudine: 49 m
- Francia Normandy Bayeux 49.27615, -0.7003449°16’34” N 0°42’1” W
Giorno 8
Memorial de Caen
4 settembre 2017, Francia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
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. Beautifully designed and executed to tell the story of Western Europe from the end of the first world war in 1918 through and including the German occupation of France and continuing on through the Cold War. It is also a plea for peace. It leads us to much discussion throughout the day. It's both exhausting and impossible to forget. We stagger home overwhelmed by the images and the feelings they provoke. It's Sunday so almost all serious restaurants are closed. We share a beer or two at a local pub filled with locals. The vast is managed by a Brit from Oxford!! It's becoming very evident that France and England are deeply intertwined still as they have been since the time of the Vikings.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore On Foot in France
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- 4 set 2017, 22:14
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Altitudine: 49 m
- Francia Normandy Bayeux 49.27614, -0.7003349°16’34” N 0°42’1” W
Giorno 8
Local Color
4 settembre 2017, Francia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
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 of old and new.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore On Foot in France
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- 4 set 2017, 22:21
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Altitudine: 49 m
- Francia Normandy Bayeux 49.27615, -0.7003449°16’34” N 0°42’1” W
Giorno 8
Meeting Annie
4 settembre 2017, Francia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
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 the Conqueror (previously known as William the Bastard). But fate intervened and he became king of England and Duke of Normandy. The Bayeau Tapestry celebrates his victory over his cousin Harold in the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The tapestry is extraordinary and a Unesco World Heritage artifact for good reasons. We see the town and the tapestry with a local guide and Annie arranges two wonderful meals in town at different restaurants where the food is overwhelmingly wonderful and the staff is very welcoming. Menus begin with foie gras and end with creme brulee. About one million calories every time you sit down. It looks like the biggest challenge on this trip is not the hiking but extraordinary the food of Normandy.Leggi altro
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Viaggiatore On Foot in France
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- 6 set 2017, 07:45
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitudine: 49 m
- Francia Normandy Bayeux 49.27615, -0.7003549°16’34” N 0°42’1” W
Giorno 10
Bayeau
6 settembre 2017, Francia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We arrived in Bayeau on Monday. It's closer to the beaches than Caen and will be our home for two nights. The hotel Villa Lara is lovely, right in the center of a very old village. The 11c Abbeye dee Bayeau is gorgeous and the few streets in town are charming. Bayeau was NOT bombed in the Allied assault in June since it contained no German troops or weapons. They consider themselves very lucky. Our guide says that the rest of the Norman peninsula was so heavily bombed that there were no leaves on the trees and no birds. It was silent after the trips moved eastward pursuing the tattered Nazi soldiers. She was born after the so has never seen a time when the trees did not have leaves. As with everyone we've met, the gratitude of the French people to the allied countries of the US, Canada and Britain is enormous.Leggi altro
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