Having been back almost a week from our trip I thought it was high time to get pen to paper (or keyboard to blog) and get some words down.
A fantastic week with a lifetime of memories; the journeys there and back were tiring but worth every mile; the gite and our hosts just perfect and the beaches, museums and cemetaries both moving and unforgettable.
We departed our meet up point at midnight 29th May and six of us rode down to Dover through the night catching a quick coffee stop on route and arriving in plenty of time so that we ended up taking an earlier ferry. After boarding we took the opportunity to relax and prepare for the onward and longest part of the trip. Arrived at about 3.30pm and after a couple of missed turnings, we found our gite for the week.
Our hosts Sophie and Thierry had transformed an old stone built stable into a cottage and not only was it comfortable and had all we needed, but it was peaceful and set within the courtyard of a working dairy farm.
Over the week we visited all of the D-Day landing beaches, cemetaries for British, American and German soldiers and also a number of musuems, German defensive gun emplacements and stopped at numerous roadside memorials.
We managed a trip to see the Bayeux Tapestry as well as take our hosts sons and their friends for rides on the bikes.
A fuller version of our trip will be published here shortly.
Our ride home was again tiring but everyone arrived home safely.
More to follow.............................................
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