by ColinAuthor | Nov 28, 2018 | Normandy Trips
Day 7 – Wednesday 6th June An exhibition, a museum, a possible memorial and a ceremony. An early and foggy start The unhelpful weather continued as we said “à bientôt” to Mme Barratte for another year. We headed off for the opening of a new exhibition in...
by ColinAuthor | Jun 20, 2017 | Normandy Trips
Normandy 2016. Day 11- Monday 6th June- A Day of Remembrance As in past years, this was going to be a very busy day of Remembrance –this year it would include saving the Honour of the Welsh Guards! But more of that, later! Honouring the fallen at Hottot Les Bagues We...
by ColinAuthor | Aug 21, 2015 | Battlefield Tours, Normandy Trips
Operation BLUECOAT 6th June dawned clear and bright. It was going to be another hot one, especially for a tour of the start of operation BLUECOAT. We called in on Barrie, or at least tried to, as he wasn’t there. So we headed off to meet up with Mary, Jack, Eain &...
by ColinAuthor | May 31, 2015 | Normandy Trips
Stand in battlefield tour guide Earlier in the week, I’d received a phone call from Eain Findlay to say that he and his father, Muir, wouldn’t be able to make the trip this year as he’d put his back out. Eain was happy to drive munching on painkillers, but somehow,...
by ColinAuthor | Nov 4, 2013 | Normandy Trips
Operation BLUECOAT, Sainte-Mère-Église and UTAH Beach Following Operation BLUECOAT In the past, whenever we’ve visited Normandy and followed the tour of Opertion BLUECOAT laid out in the back of Ian Daglish’s book on the subject, we’ve always started...
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