D-Day 80th Anniversary celebrations, more England and Wales and more anniversaries
Read moreWith our mission coming to an end, we had the day in London today and spent a fair bit of the day at the Imperial War Museum. It is a bit like the war memorial in Canberra and has extensive displays on both world wars plus the conflicts since 1945. […]
At breakfast this morning we had further fun with the language. As we entered the restaurant, the waitress asked “Australi ?” We said yes and she started to direct us back out of the room, in front of the bar and into another room which we noticed had a number […]
The alarm sounded at 02:50 and we roused ourselves quickly to get to the Australian Memorial at Villers Bretonneux by the time the site opened at 03:30 for the Dawn Service. As we walked down the corridor of the hotel, others were also making their way and as we headed […]
Today was really a travelling day as we had to get from Normandy to Amiens. After another tasty breakfast from our B&B hosts, we bid our farewell and had a few sites to catch up on we had missed so far. Not far away was Brecourt Manor which was the […]
The B&B we are staying at has quite a history. It dates back to 1180 when it was a viking property. In WWII the Germans used it as a command post prior to the D-Day invasion. The 82nd Airborne parachuted in and took the little bridge early on June 6 and […]
