SAMPLE TOUR IDEAS
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A SUGGESTED 4 DAY HOTEL-BASED ITINERARY
DAY
1
Pick-up (Home, Hotel, Station, Airport)
Drive to Portsmouth for morning sailing
to Caen
Drive to Ranville
Have lunch at Café Gondree alongside
Pegasus Bridge
(The first house in Normandy to be liberated)
Visit Pegasus Bridge Museum & Monument
Drive to chosen Hotel and book-in
Drive to Hermanville War Cemetery & Monument
to the Third Division on Sword Beach
Return to Hotel
Dinner
DAY
2
Breakfast
Visit Caen D-Day Memorial
Lunch
Drive South to Evrecy to the
Royal Welch Fusilier Monument & Hill 112
"Who Controls Hill 112 Controls Normandy"
Drive to Bayeux
Visit either the War Cemetery or the
Bayeux Tapestry
Return to Hotel
Dinner
DAY
3
Breakfast
Drive to Ste-Mere-Eglise
Still with its dummy paratrooper (pte Steele)
hanging from its church tower
Visit its many interesting shops & Airborne
Museum
Lunch
Drive to Utah Beach & Monument
then on to Point-Du-Hoc
Next stop Omaha Beach & American
War Cemetery at Colleville
Return to hotel
Dinner
DAY
4
Breakfast
Check-out of Hotel
Drive to Arromanches
Visit town and Mulberry Harbour Museum
Lunch
Drive along Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches to
Quistreham
Visit The Grand Bunker
Catch early evening ferry to Portsmouth and
home..
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SUGGESTED CAMPING ITINERARY
DAY
1
Pick-up and drive overnight to Portsmouth
Catch 07:00 fast ferry to Caen
Drive to campsite and set up camp
Visit Hermanville War Cemetery &
Monument to the Third Division Sword
Beach/Peter Sector
Hermanville-la Brech
Back to campsite
Dinner
DAY
2
Breakfast
Drive to Ste-Mere-Eglise
Still with its dummy paratrooper (pte Steele)
hanging from its church tower
Visit its many interesting shops & Airborne
Museum
Lunch
Drive to Utah Beach & Monument
then on to Point-Du-Hoc
Next stop Omaha Beach & American
War Cemetery at Colleville
Return to campsite
Barbeque
DAY
3
Breakfast
Visit Longues Battery with 3 of its
4 big guns still in place
On to Arromanches town & Mulberry
Harbour Museum
Lunch
Visit Gold Beach & Crepon
Taken by the Green Howards - of which Co. Sgt. Major
Hollis
won the only Victoria Cross on D-Day
On to Couseulles-Sur-Mer & the
Canadian Monument
This is also the landing place of Winston Churchill
and Gen. De Gaulle
Back to camp
Dinner
DAY 4
Breakfast
Take down camp site
Visit Pegasus Bridge & Museum
Lunch at Café Gondree
The first house liberated on D-Day
Visit Ranville British War Cemetery
and Merville Battery,
Back to Ouistreham
for 17.00 sailing to Portsmouth and
home...
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