Trippy
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Just returned from a very enjoyable four days in France visiting some WW2 sites, riding lovely empty roads and finding some really nice tracks that go for miles and that will have to be revisited and explored further soon.
Day 1
We arrive at Cherbourg and moor up along side the Queen Mary 2.
Heading straight off our first stop is St Mare Eglise to visit the church.
On the road we bump into Flash of the Gaps nieghbour and his friends who were making their way to Timbuktu on an Africa twin, Moggy Minor and a Nissen Micra.
Next stop was just along the coast at Pont Du Hoc which to be honest wasn't that exciting, lots of holes in the ground and a fair amount of broken concrete.
Moving swiftly on we call at La Cambre the German cemetery which was lovely, really interesting to see the difference between theirs and ours but still nice to see them so well looked after and visited by a lot of people. Nearly 22'000 men buried here
Not sure if this visitor was German but if she is then I'm all for a holiday in the Fatherland, she was soooooo yummy.
Home for the next 3 nights was the camp site at Falaise recommended to us by MikeP, it was great, right under the walls of William the Conkers castle and only about a fiver a night
DAY 2
Today we decided to visit a few more WW2 sites and first stop was this small British Cemetery. Twotters starter for 10 ... Name it.
It was some what smaller than the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach the final resting place of 10'000 Soldiers, Sailors and AirMen. This was the place that featured in Saving Private Ryan and it is huge and beautifully maintained.
Over looking Omaha Beach a some what more peaceful place than 64 years ago.
We visited a few more sites along the coast and call in at Gold beach where Adrians Grandad landed.
DAY 3
Before we left home I planned a route on the GPS and the two GS's headed south for the fast empty roads and forests above Le Mans, it was hot, the roads were fantastic and we found some great forest trails where we eventually stopped for lunch in the middle of no where.
We stopped at numerous cafe's and struggled by not really being able to speak more than two or three words of French.
We then came North a little and came across various monuments where the fighting had occured around the Falaise Gap.
At the end of the day we had covered 225 miles and were only 15 minutes away from the camp site when we came across more great tracks to play on.
Me being arty farty in a field
Got back to the tent very tired and dusty
DAY 4
Today we just had time for a ride up to Bayeux and then a visit to the Pegasus Bridge before jumping on the ferry home.
And at Bayeux a possible explanation why Fanums been so quiet of late
Vive la France
I'm F*cked
Day 1
We arrive at Cherbourg and moor up along side the Queen Mary 2.
Heading straight off our first stop is St Mare Eglise to visit the church.
On the road we bump into Flash of the Gaps nieghbour and his friends who were making their way to Timbuktu on an Africa twin, Moggy Minor and a Nissen Micra.
Next stop was just along the coast at Pont Du Hoc which to be honest wasn't that exciting, lots of holes in the ground and a fair amount of broken concrete.
Moving swiftly on we call at La Cambre the German cemetery which was lovely, really interesting to see the difference between theirs and ours but still nice to see them so well looked after and visited by a lot of people. Nearly 22'000 men buried here
Not sure if this visitor was German but if she is then I'm all for a holiday in the Fatherland, she was soooooo yummy.
Home for the next 3 nights was the camp site at Falaise recommended to us by MikeP, it was great, right under the walls of William the Conkers castle and only about a fiver a night
DAY 2
Today we decided to visit a few more WW2 sites and first stop was this small British Cemetery. Twotters starter for 10 ... Name it.
It was some what smaller than the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach the final resting place of 10'000 Soldiers, Sailors and AirMen. This was the place that featured in Saving Private Ryan and it is huge and beautifully maintained.
Over looking Omaha Beach a some what more peaceful place than 64 years ago.
We visited a few more sites along the coast and call in at Gold beach where Adrians Grandad landed.
DAY 3
Before we left home I planned a route on the GPS and the two GS's headed south for the fast empty roads and forests above Le Mans, it was hot, the roads were fantastic and we found some great forest trails where we eventually stopped for lunch in the middle of no where.
We stopped at numerous cafe's and struggled by not really being able to speak more than two or three words of French.
We then came North a little and came across various monuments where the fighting had occured around the Falaise Gap.
At the end of the day we had covered 225 miles and were only 15 minutes away from the camp site when we came across more great tracks to play on.
Me being arty farty in a field
Got back to the tent very tired and dusty
DAY 4
Today we just had time for a ride up to Bayeux and then a visit to the Pegasus Bridge before jumping on the ferry home.
And at Bayeux a possible explanation why Fanums been so quiet of late
Vive la France
I'm F*cked
they are real petrol heads they spent the whole night before they left puttin that super tenere together, i wish them the best of luck 
