2009 TOUR ITINERARY
- 2009 -

June 3rd, Wednesday. Our tour members arrive throughout the day at our CDG Airport hotel and gather at 7 PM for cocktails and our Welcoming Group Dinner.

June 4th, Thursday. Our luxury coach carries us north along the Seine, past Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's headquarters in Roche Guyon, through Giverny and Vernon to Normandy and the British Airborne landings at the Eastern end of the campaign area. We will visit Pegasus Bridge, the British Airborne Museum, hostess Arlette at the Gondree Cafe, General Gale's Ranville church HQ and the British airborne nostalgic cemetery, the Merville Battery, German pillboxes overlooking the British Sword Beach landing zone. On to Bayeux mid town hotel check-in for five nights. Bayeux is an outstanding picturesque 12th century city untouched by bombs, shellfire or small arms fire.

June 5th, Friday. Today the roads will be very busy with several thousand WW 2 vehicles and reencators from around the world. Dressed in the uniforms of that day you will feel you are part of a Hollywood movie set. We'll visit the bunkers and blockhouses of Hitler's "impenetrable Atlantic Wall" around Omaha Beach, it's very moving massive cemetery and the Reception Center opened in 2007. Much to see throughout the area all day.

June 6th, Saturday. D-DAY (which was a Tuesday in 1944). We'll travel to the Utah Beach-Ste. Mere Eglise area on the Contentin Peninsula to witness the ceremonies and celebrations. There will be more WW 2 equipment and uniforms present than in 1944. The towns will be lavishly decorated with memorabilia, American and French streamers. There will likely be a parachute jump by a thousand 82 Airborne paras into the same farmland as 65 years ago.You will be part of the festivities and meet numerous original invaders.

June 7th, Sunday. Today we'll tour British and Canadian battle sites. These forces were equal in size to the Americans but had four times as many tanks as their battles were mainly against very strong and experienced German Panzer (tank) divisions.

June 8th, Monday. Traveling south west we'll visit the hard fought Martinville Ridge overlooking the 88% destroyed City of St. Lo now restored to its previous grandeur. This will lead us to the famous Abbey of Mont St. Michel built on an island one mile off shore, in 944 AD, and the separation point of Normandy and Brittany. It is also the area where General George C. Patton's Third Army successfully broke through the German lines and made an end run around their western defenses. This will be a very full day returning to our Bayeux hotel.

June 9th, Tuesday. We check out of our hotel and travel south east to the 77 day campaign closing battle sites from Falaise to Chambois to Vimoutiers with numerous stop spots in between. This will bring us back to our CDG Airport hotel for a "Til We Meet Again Dinner."

June 10th, Wednesday. The hotel airport bus will take us to our respective airline departure terminals for return to the US or on going connections.