In depth recounting of my global wandering
Just outside the small but interesting D-Day Museum at Arromanches you can see a plaque declaring Port Winston (the name the Allies bestowed on the Mulberry harbour there) “The key of the liberation of Europe.” In some ways this might …
The D-Day beaches. The Allied assault on Normandy that began at about 06:30 on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 spanned a length of coastline that stretched some 80 kilometers from Ouistreham in the east to Saint-Martin-de-Varreville on the west. From east …
We arrived in the port city of Le Havre at 04:30 Sunday (if the scheduled arrival time printed on the day’s activities sheet was accurate) and would remain docked there for two full days. Le Havre is at the mouth …
Enough with the cheese, tell me about the booze. Like the A o C cheeses, the five beverages of Normandy that have received that designation are closely related. They are: Calvados, Calvados Pays d’Auge, Calvados Domfrontais, Pays d’Auge, and Pommeau …
When we’d had our fill of the museum, we decided we’d seen enough for the day and would simply have a wander about the area without straying too far because we knew we had another gastronomic treat waiting for us …