Normandy Website (1 Viewer)

[Leadmen]

Being Memorial Day I thought I would put the website of Normandy pictures my son made. Website is Normandy 2000 and he is going to update it this summer. Leadmen

 

[Leadmen]

Website is found on google or yahoo search at top of page. Forgot to add this. Leadmen

 

[jazzeum]

If you're looking for a good Normandy website and you're planning going anytime soon, I recommend www.normandy1944.com for the Pegasus site and Arromanches.

Other websites of importance if you're going are www.normandy-tourism.org and www.calvados-tourisme.com

There are tons of small museums throughout the area and I have some addresses for some that I can post if anybody is interested.

 

[Leadmen]

The websites you posted are neat- going to give them to my son. Thanks: Leadmen

 

[jazzeum]

I've got a brochure from Normandy that lists a lot of other websites. If you'd like me to copy (I'd do it in color) and send to you, just send me your address and I can get it out to you.

BTW, the Pegasus Museum is tremendous and the tourguide really knew his stuff. That and the St. Mere Eglise Museum were two of the highlights of our trip.

 

[Leadmen]

Here is my son's Normandy web site:

http://homepage.mac.com/rioedtech/Normandy/

Leadmen

 

[Njja]

Leadmen
Thanks for the peek at your sons website. Very nice job.
Njja

 

[jazzeum]

Thank you for that link. Looking at that link I could see that he and I had been to a lot of the same places and had taken a lot of the same pictures. It brought back some memories. When we were in Normandy, we stayed at a B and B in Villers Bocage, which was very nice. Every day, we'd travel up to Bayeaux and then goes in this direction or that direction.

On the first full day we were there, we stopped at the British cemetery in Tilly Sur Seulles not by design but because it was on the way to Bayeaux. It was an amazing moving experience. This cemetery wasn't that large and there was a little arch where people had signed the book. Reading the remembrances brought tears to my eyes. There was one inscription from a British man "to the father I never knew." A few days later we stopped at another British cemetery, the smallest cemetery in Normandy, 47 soldiers, one a Czech. It was a rainy day but again equally moving.

I don't think you can fully appreciate the sacrifice these soldiers made until you've been to Normandy. I'm not saying you can't. I just found being there made all the difference.

 

[Leadmen]

This weeks US News and World Report has nice story on Regan's 50th year visit to Normandy and how his speech ther changed a nation. June 6 issue come out this week. Leadmen