Off to Normandy tonight 4am, going for 4 days ave a look around, going with 2 mates from the XJROC, so should be a good one. Base is just off the Normandy beach, will let you know how it goes..                                                                                                                                                                             

Hey I recognise that bridge!!   If you get a chance, go to Pointe du Hoc where the commandos used grappling irons to scale the cliffs at the back of Omaha beach. The smashed big gun emplacements have been preserved just as they were left when the allied naval bombardment stopped and the commandos had finished lobbing grenades in......a really awesome and humbling place   I'm so envious....La Belle France, je t'aime                                                                                                                                                                              

Go have a look at Port en Bessin, very pretty fishing village, great restaurants                                                                                                                                                                             

Im hopeing to get around most of it, but I know i wont,, .                                                                                                                                                                             

Not in 4 days no, but you should be able to ride up all along the coast                                                                                                                                                                             

Ooh and don't forget the paratrooper hanging off the church steeple in Sainte Mere-eglise.....The Longest day is one of my favourite films ever                                                                                                                                                                             

Will Richard Todd still be holding Pegasus bridge?                                                                                                                                                                             

You Bet Pondlife!!!                                                                                                                                                                             

Just as long as Millom doesn't start up with the bloody bagpipes!!                                                                                                                                                                             

Hahahahaha....PMSL @ pondlife.......And I always wonder whatever did happen to Mrs Rommel's lovely shoes???                                                                                                                                                                             

Actually,Mr.Millom has recently died. Takes a special kind of guts to wade into battle armed with nothing but a set of bagpipes,they don't make many like him anymore                                                                                                                                                                             

trust a woman to worry about shoes!! I want to know what became of Pluskatt's dog                                                                                                                                                                             

I agree with your sentiments about Mr Millom....There are so many stories of courage and bravery, over and over....that's why visiting the beaches is so humbling....They all deserve the utmost respect   But I still stand by my interest in Mrs Rommel's shoes....the whole course of WW2 could have been entirely different if he wasn't so keen on nipping home for his conjugals (with sweetener shoes)