D-Day Anniversary Visit to Normandy, Episode 444
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
D-Day Anniversary Visit to Normandy - A Trip Report with Phil Roberson on Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Whether you're a history buff, a Francophile, or simply a traveler seeking profound experiences, this episode will leave you with a deeper understanding of WW2 events that shaped our world.
So, sit back, relax, and let's set off on this commemorative journey together, to honor the past, and embrace the resilience of the human spirit. Here we go, en route to Normandy with Phil Roberson who’s been to Normandy many many times!
In this episode we discuss where to pickup a rental car if you're not sure about driving in Paris. We talk about beautiful towns where you can stop between Paris and Normandy.
Table of Contents for this Episode
- Today on the podcast
- Podcast’s Magazine
- Font-de-Gaume
- Newsletter
- Podcast supporters
- Feedback from Anne Spitler
- Phil, Mr. Normandy
- Visiting D-Day sites when anniversary celebrations are underway
- Normandy gets VERY busy around June 6 every year
- Booking a hotel in Normandy when visiting during a D-Day celebration
- Bigger cities closer to the historical sites
- Caen, Le Havre, Cherbourg
- Bayeux
- What to expect to see everywhere
- Airplanes
- D-Day invasion celebrated as the start of liberation
- How do you prepare for a trip to Normandy
- Local events, tourist office
- The annual ceremony at the US American Normandy Cemetery
- Walking tours of the paratrooper landing areas
- Finding a restaurant
- Driving in Normandy from Paris
- Abbaye de Jumièges
- Merville Battery
- The Marmottan museum
- The wine museum, near the Eiffel Tower
- The Marquis de Lafayette
- Thank you Patrons!
- Back from Bootcamp
- Two ways to get my tours
- Copyright
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the This is a |
| 0:18.8 | This is join us in France episode 444 |
| 0:20.2 | 4 |
| 0:19.2 | 434 B I'm Annie sergeant and join 4, 4, 4 Saint-Carrand-Cattrel. |
| 0:22.8 | Bonshule, I'm Annie Sergeant, |
| 0:24.6 | and join us in France is the podcast |
| 0:26.9 | where we talk about France. |
| 0:28.6 | Everyday life in France, great places |
| 0:30.9 | to visit in France, French culture history, gastronomy and news related to travel to France. |
| 0:38.0 | Today I bring you a trip report with Phil Roberson about visiting Normandy during a D-Day anniversary celebration. |
| 0:46.5 | Whether you're a history buff, a francophile, or simply a traveler seeking profound experiences, this episode will leave you with a deeper understanding of World War II events that shaped our world. |
| 1:00.0 | So sit back, relax, and let's set off on this commemorative journey together to honor the past |
| 1:06.2 | and embrace the resilience of the human spirit. |
| 1:09.6 | Here we go, en route to Normandy with Phil Roberson, who's been to Normandy many, many times. |
| 1:16.7 | For the magazine part of the podcast, today I'll give you a brief report on the boot camp, |
| 1:21.6 | which just ended and was great fun but my conversation with |
| 1:25.6 | Phil Ran Long so you'll hear all about the boot camp in episode 445 next week |
| 1:31.3 | then you'll also hear about many boot camp participants. |
| 1:35.0 | I went to phone the gom last Sunday thanks to Jim, who had two tickets he couldn't use, |
| 1:41.0 | and he mentioned that on the Facebook group for the |
| 1:43.8 | podcast and I said oh I'd love to go I'll send out a newsletter about that because it's |
| 1:49.6 | not so easy to get tickets to phone the gum unless you understand how they operate and now having |
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