The Normandy Landing Beaches

Day 1
Travel from your local departure point, via the Channel, and travel to your hotel in Normandy where you will spend the next 4 nights

Day 2
Full day included excursion to explore the sights of the British and Canadian sectors of the Allied Landings and the Battlefields of Normandy. We will visit Merville Battery, Pegasus Bridge and Ranville British Airborne cemetery where over 2000 men lie at rest. We will journey along the Beaches of Sword, Juno and Gold, calling at the town of Arromanches where you may take lunch and view its splendid Mulberry Harbour system that still lies in the Bay. Today's excursion ends at the German Gun sight at Longues-Sur-Mer before returning to your hotel.

Day 3
After breakfast, we head for the Normandy town of Bayeaux, which was the first major town in Europe to be recaptured from Allied Forces. Time will be available to visit the Battle of Normandy museum and the nearby British cemetery. There will be time to visit the unique Bayeux Tapestry depicting the 1066 Battle of Hastings. After lunch we return to Caen to visit the Memorial Peace Museum presenting its 20th century history. We have an optional excursion this evening to the pretty fishing port of Hornfleur where you may wish to dine in one of the many restaurants. Pre-book for only £10.00 Adult, £8.00 Children.

Day 4
Today, we visit the American sector of the D-Day beaches, so realistically brought into life in the film 'Saving Private Ryan'. Our excursion also includes visits to the Omaha Beach site and the American Cemetery at Coulville Sur Mer where almost 9000 perfectly aligned white crosses are laid in memory of the soldiers who were killed in action in the area, then onto Pointe de Hoc. After taking lunch our excursion continues to Utah Beach and the American Airborne Museum in the Town Square of St Mere Eglise, now home to one of the gliders used during the D-Day invasion. Finally, we visit the German cemetery at La Cambe where 20,000 soldiers were buried.

Day 5
Depart from your hotel after breakfast. We will take a late afternoon Channel Crossing and continue your homebound journey.

**Please note on May 04th 2009, we do not visit the Caen Memorial and Peace Museum on the afternoon of day three, instead we depart earlier for the evening visit to Hornfleur.