Normandy 6th Airborne

Breakfast. This morning to ‘Le Mesnil’ crossroads; action by the Canadians and 8 Para of the 3rd Para Brigade. After a Remembrance service we visit the Memorial Pegasus Museum and Pegasus Bridge. Packed lunch. Afternoon to Breville, the Merville Battery and the Chateau St Come. Remembrance services before returning to Cabourg. Overnight

Breakfast. Visit Ranville for a special ceremony with the Mayor at the 13th Parachute Battalion Memorial, followed by Mass at Ranville Church and the commemorative service in the CWGC Airborne Cemetery. Packed lunch. Putot-en-Auge for a Remembrance Service. Overnight

Breakfast. Drive along SWORD, GOLD and JUNO beaches. Participate in a perfumery workshop. Visit the new British Normandy Memorial which records the names of the 22,442 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The Medieval city Bayeux, with free time for lunch at own cost. Estate with apple orchard producing cider and calvados since 1835. Sample what the soldiers enjoyed in 1994! Overnight

Breakfast. Morning at leisure in Cabourg before visiting a pottery for a demonstration on the creation by the use of moulds and the potter on the wheel.  Explanations are given of the firing and enamelling of the pieces. Return afternoon sailing to Portsmouth.