Our first day we took a shuttle to Mont Saint Michel. It is one of Europe’s most unforgettable sights and just an hour and fifteen minutes from Bayeux. The staggering location draws visitors and pilgrims from all over the world. Early in the 8th century, Bishop Aubert claimed that the Archangel Michael told him to build a church atop the… View Post
Bayeux an excellent jumping off point to tour nearby historic WWII sites. It was easy to see why historians, tourist and World War II veterans from all over the world come. I loved walking through this quiet town of charming stone houses with gorgeous window flower boxes. We stopped for lunch at Le Garde Manger, it had a cheerful lawn… View Post
Bayeux is a lovely, sleepy, medieval city and an excellent jumping off point to tour nearby historic WWII sites. Getting there by train is simple and less than 2 hours. We began our trip at the Gare Saint-Lazare Train Station and took the escalator to the second floor. Our train was leaving from track 22 (most trains leave from tracks above… View Post
Kinderdijk is a UNESCO world heritage site, which tells you how unique it is. This is the largest concentration of 19 old windmills in the Netherlands, that date back to the 1700s. If you wanted to see and experience the operation of windmills this is the place. Millers live in the windmills and keep them working all year round. If… View Post
The Dom Cathedral is a UNESCO Site and is the most visited landmark in Northern Europe and it’s pretty obvious why. The Cathedral was built to house the remains of the Three Kings and it took 700 years to complete. It was badly damaged during World War II, but remained standing while the rest of the city was more or… View Post
