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Today is our last full day of our trip. Tomorrow at 12pm we will be boarded on the new flagship MV Galicia of the Brittany Ferries fleet bound for Portsmouth. As if to echo our sadness at leaving France it has mostly been raining. Preparation it seems for the forecasted weather at home in CornwallContinue reading “Final Day – Cherbourg, Normandy, France”

We had a leisurely start today after a few hectic days. We made our way to Utah beach a short walk from our motorhome Aire. It is a beautiful sunny day but pretty windy as we walk along the back of the dunes to the beach. The coach parties are out in force already andContinue reading “Utah Beach and Sainte Mére Eglise – Sainte Mére Eglise, Normandy, France”

As you can tell by the title. It’s been quite a busy day! Summer solstice today and we have made the most of it. First our vet visit to have the dogs willingly eat a chewable tape worm tablet from the vet, scan their microchips and fill out two lines of a form for theContinue reading “Vet visit, Bayeux Tapestry, Battle of Normandy Museum, Omaha and Utah beaches – Saint-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, France”

Today was a bit of a slower start as I needed to organise the dogs to get tape worm treatment at a vets, part of the re-entry requirements into the UK. We had not been quite sure where we would be when and this needs to be done a maximum of 5 days before andContinue reading “Mulberries, Batteries and Bayeux – Bayeux, Normandy, France”

Today was officially the end of the heatwave. We have been very lucky to have experience rain only 3 times since the start of our trip and ever since the end of the first week we have had temperatures usually 25 degrees plus. Sometimes rather higher than was comfortable to be honest. However, last nightContinue reading “British Normandy Memorial Site and Gold Beach – Arromanches-Les-Bains, Normandy, France”

This morning we had a nice walk along the canal with the dogs. We had hoped to find the pathway directly from the site to the cycle / footpath running behind. However, the gate we found was very clearly locked and the path very overgrown. So we did the long walk round via the roadContinue reading “Sword and Juno Beach – Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, France”

The mission objective today was Pegasus Bridge only 15 mins away in Ouistreham. However, first our morning dog walk took us further on the Memorial Walk at the bottom of the field beside us to the Canadian and British Memorial Gardens to pay our respects. Little did we realise that they had such a prolificContinue reading “Pegasus Bridge – Ouistreham, Normandy, France”

The forecast was for Paris to reach 37 degrees C by Friday. So we decided that we needed to get somewhere coastal. We had already decided and agreed with family and friends that we would make the trip to the Normandy beaches which we had planned as a group but had been delayed for 2Continue reading “Start of our Normandy tour – Caen, Normandy, France”

We caught the 10am shuttle this morning to the drop off point at Porte Maillot, which turns out to be an enormous building site currently. We navigated our way through the temporary walkways hoping we could find our way back for pick up. First stop of the day the Arc de Triomphe, inaugurated in 1836Continue reading “Paris Sightseeing – Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France”