NORMANDY AND THE D-Day Beaches
Includes New Canadian Juno Memorial and Dieppe
Mini-Tour - Four days / Three nights
This is a tour that requires no introduction. June 6th 1944 is a date
forever etched into our consciousness. Our four-day tour will provide you
will an emotionally moving and learning experience that will be a long-time
forgetting. This tour can also be run for private groups at any time of
year. We can also adapt the itinerary to focus more on the involvement of
specific nationalities, or regiments, in the Normandy invasion. The cost per
person will depend on the number travelling. Please contact us if you'd like
a quotation.
Departure Dates 2003:
Saturday to Tuesday: 12Apr, 10May, 14Jun, 19Jul, 16Aug, 18Aug.
Price: $669. Single supplement: $135
Includes four days touring, three night's accommodation with full
breakfasts and three course-dinners, all entrance fees and services of
driver/guide/companion.
DAY ONE - SATURDAY
This is our own 'longest day'. We leave London early in the morning
heading south west. Our itinerary contains many unique references and sites
connected with the days leading up to June 6, 1944 before we board our ferry
to France. There are also several of the better known sites, including the
Portsmouth D-day museum and you'll see Eisenhower's HQ where 'Operation
Overlord' was planned (occasionally this may be not accessible due to ad hoc
security issues as it is on a functioning base). We take the early afternoon
ferry across the channel arriving in France four hours later. This will
undoubtedly be a less stressful crossing than the men faced on the night of
June 5.
DAY TWO and DAY THREE - SUNDAY and MONDAY
From our bases at Bayeux and Honfleur, we spend the following two days
visiting sites whose names will be etched into 20th century history; the
D-day beaches Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword, Gold, Arromanches, Pegasus Bridge,
the Falaise Pocket, Operation Epsom. We'll also visit the solemn national
cemeteries, and museums en route such as the airborne at Ste Mere Eglise,
the undersea wrecks museum at Port en Bessin and Commando museum at
Ouistreham. A major highlight will be the Caen Peace Memorial museum. We'll
see sights connected with all of the allied armies and will be able to amend
the itinerary on a daily basis to visit any location that might have a
special meaning for one of our tour participants. Depending on the date of
tour there may be a special commemorative event taking place at one of the
sites and we'd always endeavour to visit such. We stay two nights near Caen
and one in the pretty harbour town of Honfleur.
DAY FOUR - TUESDAY
We've an early start and a drive to Dieppe. This was the site of an
abortive raid by Canadian and British soldiers in 1942. It cost the
Canadians dear with over 2000 casualties. We board the 11.45 fast ferry for
our return crossing to Newhaven. This afternoon we'll return to London
through Kent with a final fitting stop at Winston Churchill's home of
Chartwell, where you can still virtually smell the great man's cigar smoke.
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