From: Maurizio Beretta (pierino@fastwebnet.it)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 14:10:35 PDT
Hi Mike!
I do strongly suggest you to buy the wonderful guide to Normandy:
BATTLE OF NORMANDY, Gallimard Guides ISBN 2 7424 0243 8
...they in Normandy have eight historic routes, very well signed, that
could help you to make a good planning of your visit...I spent there a week
two years ago, and I've already booked, together with my group, a whole
"little" castle for the next year event!! ...we'll bring there a Sherman, a
Stuart maybe an Halftrack, command cars and jeeps...and maybe an L-5
airplane as well!!
the 8 routes cover the d-day landings and the battle of normandy sites..
buy the guide, then feel free to e-mail me for any doubt or irf you want a
deep report of the sites illustrated.
that's valid for everyone, of course!!
ciao
maurizio
At 21.53 09/09/2003 +0200, Nigel Hay MILWEB wrote:
>Paris to Normandy is about 4 hours to the beaches - depending on how you
>drive
>
>Just get down to Arromanches and start from there - excellent museum and
>the 360degree cinema is something else - from their go east to the new Juno
>Beach Museum then head west toPort En Bessin - a good museum of relics
>including tanks and boats salvaged from the sea - then onto Omaha - there is
>an archive museum as well as the musuem on the approach to the beach. No
>visit would be complete without a visit the American cemetary above Omaha or
>the British one at Bayeux - also do Point du hoc
>The above will fill 2 days dawn to dusk - Utah beach and the US dropzones
>are a bit further west - you would be pushed to fit them in as well in two
>days.
>
>Hope this helps, Nige
>Normandy
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>Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 4:39 PM
>Subject: [MV] Ideas for stop-over in Paris
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> > Hello list,
> >
> > I will be traveling to our two ball bearing plants in Hungary and Poland
> > during the second and third
> > weeks of October.
> >
> > On the way back, i have the opportunity to stop over in Paris for a few
> > days. My thoughts were to
> > get down to Normandy area and view the invasion sights, museums, etc.
>this
> > would be done to familiarize myself with the area in preparation for D-Day
> > 2004 trip.
> >
> > I would appreciate any ideas, thoughts, places of interest to visit, etc.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mike Curtis
> >
> >
> >
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