Normandy

Arromanches, where the whole street is lined with USA, British, Canadian and French flags


Thur 12th Oct, Normandy. This is one place they don't want to forget the war. We visited Gold (English) & Omaha (USA) beaches and Arromanches (where the floating harbour was towed to from Portsmouth and enabled huge quantities of supplies to be landed in the first few weeks of the invasion) . We drove down along the coast road where all the landings took place on D Day, a drive of about 70 Km's, where gun bunkers still stand, machine gun nests, artillary sites and abandoned tanks and other machinery.






This is the path that leads to the memorial to the USA soldiers who died on Omaha beach, you may recognise this as the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan.

Now off to Roscof to catch the ferry to the UK.