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NC Pt.VII - The Cemetery

The American Cemetery near Omaha Beach is quite impressive. It’s a vast area, and every single piece of grass looks like it’s been manually trimmed. When we visited, the weather was perfect, but despite the warm sun, looking at the thousands of crosses wasn’t exactly making me

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NC Pt.VI - Photo ops are timeless

Along the Normandy landing beaches are many memorials commemorating D-Day in 1944. In case you’re unfamiliar with the whole scenario, here’s the Wikipedia entry on Operation Overlord, as the Battle of Normandy was codenamed. The image above is of photos attached to walls next to one of the

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NC Pt.V - Beach houses

I’m getting more unimaginative by the second. Hence the headline. We spent quite some time driving along the coast of lower Normandy. We stopped at a few places to have a cup of awful French coffee* or just amble along the sandy beaches (diligent readers may by now have

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NC Pt. IV - Beach House

Fed up yet? Yes, didn’t think so. We spent a considerable amount of our time inside the car, but we made sure we only went to the greatest of places. Since another considerable amount of time was spent hunting for and then consuming food, it won’t surprise you

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NC Pt.III - Les Andelys

After exactly 12 hours of travel, we had reached the Normandy. The first place we decided to look at was a town called Vernon. It turned out that the guide we were using didn’t mention the fact that on Sundays Vernon is a ghost town, and somehow it felt

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NC Pt.II - Le Schlucht

We decided to save money by taking country roads instead of the expensive French motorway and made our way through Alsace, the region in Eastern France that’s still populated by German-speaking people. That’s why the picture above is of Le Schlucht, an interesting language mix consisting of a

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Normandy Chronicles Pt.1

I’m back. The vacation was wonderful, and because it only lasted a week, I will prolong the whole experience by posting photos of the trip on here for the next few days or weeks, so you too can see how great it was. Well, instalment number one is this

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Goodbye Austria, hello France

Today’s the day: We’re leaving for our one-week trip to the Normandy. There’s not a whole lot more to say than that I’m extremely excited to go on this trip with my girlfriend. Be sure to check back in a week or so, in order to