Normandy - A trip long overdue

We are in New York visiting children and grandchildren, but tomorrow we begin a new adventure!

Normandy is our destination with a few days in Paris on the way out.
We are going to try to blog real-time on this trip if connectivity allows.
This trip has been a long time bucket list destination and will be a little emotional.
We had always planned to do it with our friend, but that will not be the case.
Hence, the title of Normandy - A trip long overdue.

Follow the link as we visit: The Land of Normans!

We are sitting at JFK waiting to board.
Just an hour or two away from our adventure to begin.

However, to get JFK from Virginia we had a slight detour to Long Island.
Boy did it make it easy traveling this morning and a wonderful weekend with grandchildren.

Link: A Slight Detour

Safe travel guys, looking forward to the story!

Looking forward to hearing all about it.

This will be good. I’m ready for an adventure.

We awoke late no time to post. In Rouen awaiting our lunch.
I hope it is exciting as the table next to us.

Tom--that looks like a bale of hay on fire!!

They closed the lid and the entire glass bowl fills with a very fragrant smoke covering the meat and baked cheese.

Pictures later on what I had,

Well the adventure is underway

Link: New York to Rouen

Enjoy

Lovely beginning Tom! I had missed the 'pre-trip' installment, so went back and caught up on that.

Link: City of 100 Bells

We truly enjoyed a truly wonderful day in Rouen.

Lovely!! So enjoyed it!! Carry on!!!

Nice segment, I need to start dreaming.

Honfleur a beautiful town on the sea.

If you are keeping a bucket list for places to see... Honfleur probably should be added to your list

Link: A day in pictures

Thanks for the lovely pictures!! Carry on!!

Excellent! Cheers!

Really enjoying the reports. The pictures are great!

The Moules look great. Did you have a memorable wine at lunch? The dinner choice was one of my favorites

Staying with Friends in La-Haye-du-Puit. I may be a little slow with next installment

Hopefully, I will be able to upload tomorrow another day in the blog.
Did not want to take time away from our visit with friends.

Quick preview of today's adventure.

We are now on the other side of Normandy. Only about 3 km from Omaha beach. The B&B we are staying in was built in the 1300s, and not surprisingly with big brick wall the internet is marginal. I will try to upload the blog, but no promises.

Here is the house we are staying in.

Back online. Internet is spotty. Currently in a beautiful rural setting in a very very old B&B.

But here is Friday the 29th installment - enjoy

Link: Calva and Friendship

Wow, amazing pictures, as always!! Thanks! Carry on!!

Today's blog is really the reason we took this vacation.

Some the text may seem a little personal for a travel blog, but many of our friends who knew and loved Bennie are following along also.

It truly was a great day in small town town in Normandy.

Link: Memories

Back on Track!
A very special day in a very special place!

Link: Mont-Saint Michel

Great reports Tom!

Thanks Beerman - I was wondering if anyone was still out there.
I am slow posting again, but I promise I will take it to the end.

Today we begin our D-Day Experience. These few days will never be forgotten.

LInk: Our D-Day Experience

I'm still here. Thoroughly enjoying the reports.

Tom--yes, still here! Enjoying it very much!

Great!
Stay tuned more to come...

Yes, reading them all as well. Honfleur was the destination for many of my cross-channel sailing trips. Really enjoyed the photos.

Absolutely following!! This has been fantastic. Thank you Tom.

Part 2 of the D-Day experience is published

Link: Day of Remembrance

Thanks for following on. This was an emotional one to write.

Great segment. Thanks for all the detail.

great reports Tom!

We leave Normandy and head to Paris

Quite a change of scenery

Goodbye Normandy - Hello Paris

Enjoy!

For those who wanted more pictures and less words - this post is for you!!!!

We had a wonderful day walking the streets of Paris, that concluded with a meal that will not be forgotten.

Link: Paris by Day and by Night

Enjoy - comments and questions always welcomed.

I guess with the time change and my schedule I get to read these early in the feed. My feet started to hurt at the 8 mile point. Awesome day. How much longer is the stay?

What an awesome adventure. Thank you for taking us along.

Thanks for the kind words.

We have one more day of trip and wrap-up post to close this adventure out.
Working on our last day in Paris today. Love to post today because we are going out of town for the weekend.

You got to have a plan to change one
Hang in there... there is light at the end of the path

Tom--We have just returned from a short trip out of town ourselves (nothing nearly as exciting as your trip though!) and am just catching up with several days' installments. What an amazing series of reports! Thank you so much for taking us along!

Thanks Carol - Welcome Home!

I took a few minutes to develop a Table of Contents for the Blog.
If you go to the LINK: Homepage
it will take you to the Table or just click on the header of any page and it will take you back.

One thing I do not like about blogs is going backwards in time. I always get confused if I have been there or not.

Tom--thanks again for a wonderful compilation of tales and pictures!

Well at long last the final day of our trip and our return has been posted.

Link: Friday - Our Last Hurrah & Epilogue

What a great trip. The people of France were great and very helpful!

Thank everyone for following along... Until next time

Simply wonderful, as always. Thanks Tom!!

Thanks for the trip. Awesome

Thank you Tom.

I noticed this morning the link to the Gaudi Exhibit was broken, so I fixed it. Just a nice intro to the exhibit.
Thanks everybody for following along.
If Normandy is not on your bucket list... you may want to add it.
As Paris... It is Paris.

My doctor, who loves to travel, always said about France: "You do not go to France to lose weight or to save money"
It is always good to follow your doctor's advice.

Awesome reports and pics!! We are planning a Euro trip in late September, you got me motivated!!!

Beerman - where or what options are you considering?

All subject to change.....but Italy remains top interest. If our daughter can fit in a trip we would consider starting in Como, she is interested in revisiting Lugano, so that's a convenient home base. We were so close to Venice one trip but ran out of time with a pending train strike, I think that's a must see. We have yet to venture to southern Italy, so that's why all subject to change! Just happy to be able to start talking about travel abroad again!

It is so much fun to plan after the decision has been made to go....
Now the question is where and for how long.
Italy always a good choice, but one day I have to convince the Beerman family on the Iberian Peninsula.

One day!!

Here and amazing nature, and medieval cities, and beautiful villages, this is just a small list of what you will find exclusively in Normandy.

Tom,thank you so much for the time and effort that you put into your blogs. We are traveling to Paris and Normandy in October and I took notes from your postings. A million thanks

JimandBeth,

Thank you for your kind words. Travel is Janet and my favorite thing. We have been so lucky to experience so many things and hope to do more in the future.
We are currently planning a 3 week trip to Galicia and Basque region of Spain in October and I plan to blog on that trip also.

If you have any questions on your trip to Normandy please feel free to post or pm and we will see if we can help.

TomandJanet

Can I Venmo you some jai alai funds

Dollars and Euros always accepted... 😉

Thank you.

Hi Tom,
I am VERY late to the party, but just had to tell you how very much I enjoyed your travelogue. Thank you so much for bringing us along. It brought back memories of the 2 times we visited France & Paris. The first time in 1990 and then in 2018. We were indeed fortunate to visit before both COVID and the tragic fire at Notre Dame.

Kathleen never too late to enjoy travel adventures! Thank you for your kind words. If you want to return virtually here is another France blog.
https://nicefr2019.blogspot.com/