Normandy Region

Well since I'm here:

I better skip over to the Normandy Beaches and see some American history in France before I spend my last week in paris. Operation D-Day Tour!

Yeah, remember this image?  Something remind you of Saving Private Ryan (Tom Hanks)?

Into the Jaws of Death by Robert F. Sargent. Assault craft land one of the first waves at Omaha Beach. The U.S. Coast Guardcaption identifies the unit as Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. 1944



I want to see the wrath of WWII on the beaches of northern France;
There are fields of white crosses in the names (and unnamed) of soldiers who died in one of the most horrific battles history has ever known.  There are still remnants of the battlefield left for tourism to play around: bunkers, scrap metal, dead mines, old washed up boats and canons!

I mean look at this picture is this not nuts? I can't imagine fighting in this mess but people did, and I'd like to see where it happened.

I just watched Captain America last night, I feel ridiculous okay?

There is a little Museum I'd have to visit nearby:
http://www.musee-arromanches.fr/accueil/
« On the initiative of Raymond TRIBOULET, France's first sub-prefect after the Liberation » the permanent exhibition on the Normandy Landings was officially opened on June 5th 1954 in Arromanches by Monsieur René COTY, the then President of the French Republic.
It was the first museum to be built in commemoration of June 6th 1944 and the Normandy Campaign.
The D-day Museum overlooks the very spot where one of the Mulberry Harbours was constructed and where its remains can still be seen today, just a few hundred metres from the shore.

Well that's it back to Paris, then home!

Mont St-Michel

I must stop and see this epic "castle:"

The Abbey of Mont-St-Michel is perched precariously on a 264-foot high rocky islet connected to the mainland by a causeway. Surrounded by over half a mile of massive walls and reached by a steep climb up winding streets, it remains one of the greatest sightseeing attractions in Europe and the second most visited place in France after the Eiffel Tower. The Mont-St.Michel is also known for its tides, the highest on the continent, which race towards the isle at the speed of "galloping horses"

I've heard that it is much like a castle, as an American would imagine it to be, that can be seen from miles away as you approach.  Once you reach the entrance you have to climb through a winding city; protected by the castle walls and there are several shops and amazing eats to experience along the way... then once you've made it up-up-up and through the city you can explore the main castle itself and all of its glorious architecture, history, art, and probably the best part is the view.