Breakfast was a lot quieter this morning, instead of hordes of families there were many tables of single people wearing lanyards, clearly here for a work event. We didn’t linger because we had an appointment – we were due to meet Erin at Slough station at 9am! As it turned…
June 8th Today was one of those “transit” days where the focus of the day was getting from one country to another without really any sightseeing. We slept well in Amiens and checked out around 9am, for the hour and a half drive back to Charles de Gaulle airport in…
We had one more full day in France and Neil was keen to revisit the Australian National Memorial at Villers – Brettoneaux. Since our last visit in 2011 they have build a large museum there! The John Monash Centre, and it receives excellent reviews. We enjoyed a tasty breakfast of…
Our alarms went off at 4 am, but I’d been awake for over an hour! We dressed quickly and hit the road by 4.20. Google said it would take us around 50 minutes to be at the Memorial at Utah Beach and we needed to be there well before dawn…
Our plans for today had been a bit fluid. The main thing we wanted to see was the parachute drop that was planned to happen at the Azeville Battery , but the timing of the drop had been moving around like a parachute on a windy day! In the original…
We were both glad to get to bed last night, we’re definitely feeling the effects of jet lag. The shutters in our apartment here are a little basic and don’t block the light so it felt a little odd going to sleep with the sky still a little light! We…
The Novotel at CDG airport was a good find. We slept well, ate a good breakfast and it was very easy to transfer in the monorail back to terminal 2f to collect our rental car for this part of the trip. The Europcar counter had an efficient registrations login PC…
This trip has crept up on me a bit, I suppose because we usually travel in September , not June. Neil’s been working lots of late nights to catch up on Tax lodgements before we go, he would never choose to travel in June normally but unfortunately the Allied leaders…
We enjoyed the “cooked to order” breakfast in the Embassy suites this monring. The breakfasts do vary a lot from hotel chain to chain, Holiday Inn Express have their cinnamon rollls, and the hanptons have a really nice selectio of fancy smoothies but the Embassy suites do cooked to order…
So today we went over 100 miles out of our way to see a big ball of string… We had some major things to look forward to today! In fact I think Neil had planned the trip around the first of our sites, as it had originally beenon his plans…
We stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. The best thing about Holiday Inn Express? They ALL have the most amazing cinnamon rolls on the breakfast buffet. Yum! We had a mixed night, there was rain and odd noises in the room and some noisy people leaving their rooms…
Neil and I have a bit of a running joke about Nebraska, after we saw the black and white comedy/drama 2013 film of the same name. It’s a really odd but compellingly weird movie and it would either make you desperate to visit Nebraska…or fill you with dread at the…
