Four years ago I was excited about planning my first visit to World War II sites. We took a jaunt to Pointe du Hoc, Arrowmanches where remnants of the massive floating Mulberry Harbour still remain, and the Normandy American Cemetery. But I never wrote about our jaunt to one ofContinue Reading
I’m not sure why I never wrote about our jaunt to Arromanches before. I wrote about our jaunt to Pointe du Hoc and the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. But I never wrote anything about Arromanches. Hmm… Well, what better day to fix that than on June 6th in memoryContinue Reading
We docked in Le Havre, France, on the last day of our British Isles cruise. Le Havre is a gateway to France’s Normandy region, somewhere I’ve long wanted to jaunt. Mainly because I’ve been curious about the D-Day beaches. I partly picked the cruise because it afforded a chance toContinue Reading
When we went to Istanbul I was hopeful we’d get to jaunt to Gallipoli, site of a World War I battlefield. I’d never visited a WWI battlefield before. I thought that might be a pretty powerful experience. Sadly, it was a bit of a commitment and we opted to hitContinue Reading
The first stop on our British Isles cruise will take us to St. Peter Port, our gateway to Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. Here’s what I knew about the Channel Islands before I started researching them for our trip: it had been the only British territory occupied by theContinue Reading
Out of the stories of the World War Two and the evils and atrocities of the Third Reich were born a few ghost stories. Stories of military apparitions dot the European countryside, phantom fliers cruise the skies of the North Sea and spectral paratroopers wander aimlessly on forgotten airfields. WarContinue Reading
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