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#11
30th June 2015, 07:15 PM
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Did you visit the museum at the side of Arromanche square?
If not you missed a god one. One of the many schools I took there had a Polish teacher due for retirement and he had told me of some of his D Day exploits. When I informed one of the attendants there he collared the Curator who came and spoke with us. Turned out that the Polish guy was one of their missing heroes. Within minutes all the town dignatries arrived and a medal was presented to the Polish teacher.
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#12
1st July 2015, 03:25 PM
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It was really hot yesterday, as the dashboard on the proclaimed late in the afternoon.
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1st July 2015, 03:33 PM
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Was a scortcher here yesterday too. Hotter later this week for you I believe. Enjoy😀
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1st July 2015, 03:39 PM
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They, Radio 2, said Paris was 40c today.
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1st July 2015, 04:15 PM
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Can't quite match that. 32.5c showing right now on my S8, parked in the shade in Buckinghamshire.
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1st July 2015, 09:52 PM
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Sunny Swindon today -
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#18
12th July 2015, 07:45 AM
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Well I've made it back to the UK and currently in Hertfordshire, drove through Vire in Normandy up to Calais (Vire, Caen, Le Havre, Calais) before doing some shopping and catching the Eurotunnel back to the UK.
By the time I get back to Dorset tonight I'll have covered just over 2000 miles in 2 weeks in the D3, car never missed a beat at all. Never saw the temperature get up to that level again, but did see 31C on Friday. The landing beaches of Normandy have quiet a sobering thought, looking today its almost impossible to understand what happened on them all those years ago now. I drove all along the coast from Saint Laurent Sur Mer, to Arromanches. We only went into the Overlord museum at Omaha beach (opposite the american cemetery), quiet an eye opener.
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12th July 2015, 08:55 AM
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Hi Mannyo,
Glad you managed at least one of the museums. Very sobering. Over the years I have visited all the museums and military cemetries in the western European countries. Also most of the concentration camps. Those were the days when as well as driving the coach I had to do the Tour Managing job. The coast drive you did can be a very nice experience. I have stayed in most of the towns and villages along the coast. Welcome home.
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