Blogs from Sainte-Mere-Eglise, Lower Normandy, France, Europe

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Arrived Cherbourg, short drive to St. Mere de Eglise and pitched up. Walked into village via horse jumping event to have a look at the church where the American paratrooper got caught up on the bell tower.... read more
At sea !
Our pitch
Horse event

Europe » France » Lower Normandy » Sainte-Mere-Eglise September 21st 2014

A long drive today as we are making a bit of a detour en route for the channel crossing. Stopping of for a couple of nights near Cherbourg to visit Janet and Eric who have had their caravan on a site at Utah beach for last 2 weeks. First of all went to the Carrefour which is next door to campsite, incredibly convenient to get bread but… as it was open I popped inside and picked up a few bottles of things I wanted. Then I dropped one. Had to be the one containing the stickiest substance known to man – the maple syrup. Thank goodness it was left to the Carrefour staff to clean it up. As for me, I got another bottle of the shelf and paid for it, a little apologetically, along with ... read more
Pretty Normandy
Endless flat roads and still warm and sunny
En route for the beach near Cherbourg

Europe » France » Lower Normandy » Sainte-Mere-Eglise June 14th 2013

On this my final day in Paris I wanted to go to the beaches in Normandy and see all that awesome that was still there. So I got word of a tour guide that gives good tours of the American beaches and I booked a last minute trip with them for this day. It was a little annoying though because I had to be up there at 0900 and that meant if I took the motorway it would still be like 2-3 hr ride. So no side roads today just the big slab of eh whatever. So I headed out and it was raining again but I overcame and adapted and it stopped a little outside of town. Naturally I lost one of my favorite parts of my bike and that is a little thing called ... read more
Airborne Museum
Point Du Hoc
American Memorial




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