Normandy

[sunjester]

Normandy, the best place for wargamers to visit. Great food, fantastic cider and more military museums than you can shake a stick at!

We've been twice on the Tring Wargames Club Overseas Battlefield Tours, one time covering the British/Canadian end when we stayed just on Juno beach and the other covering the American end when we stayed just on Utah. There's just too much to see it all in one trip! Have a great time Dave.

[Dr Dave]

Might sound a bit odd this - go somewhere special - and get some soil for your bases! The beaches are obvious, but try to go up Hill112. Take a jam jar and bring back some basing material.

[Nosher]

Calvados et Moules......

A visit to La Cambe Cimitiere Allemande and the Museum at Dead Mans Corner is an absolute must. Both are within driving distance to do both in the same day behind Omaha and Utah beaches respectively.

For non-military jaunts (although it has 100 years wars connections) Mont St Michel is a wonderful day out.

Very, very jealous

[T13A]

Hi

I'm sure you will have a great time. If you can a visit to the German cemetery at La Cambe is worth while to see the contrast in styles between the German, US and British cemeteries. When I was there last, purely by accident, I came across Michael Wittman's grave.

My son is going to Normandy for 5 days in July with his school and I'm such a good parent that I'm taking him again about 3 weeks later after a week in the Loire (whether he likes it or not)!

Have a great time.

Cheers Paul

[skywalker]

Awesome............not that I'm any way jealous

Have a great trip

[Dave]

Cheers All
On the first day is to see the  Bayeux Tapestry and the Pegasus bridge end, I would like to see were the Green Howards came ashore, Merville battery etc etc etc.

Dave

[Dr Dave]

Cheers All
On the first day is to see the  Bayeux Tapestry and the Pegasus bridge end, I would like to see were the Green Howards came ashore, Merville battery etc etc etc.

Dave

The concrete bus shelter that Stanley Hollis fired at with his Bren is just off the beach. The Regt bought it some years back and it has some plaques placed on it the mark Hollis's deeds.

[DanJ]

Been to Normandy three or four times, there is a huge amount to see all over the place, from great museums to individual monuments.

Tiger tank at Vimoutiers



And Churchill near Caen



For some reason the disparity in size was more notable when the vehicles were seen in isolation in the countryside than in the Tank Museum at Bovingdon

[fred.]

Haven't been to Normandy since I was a kid - must be 30-35 years ago. Still remember the Bayeux Tapestry, and the American Cemetery at Omaha.

Really want to go back - how to persuade the rest of the family that this is a good holiday destination...

Might be an easier sell than the Market Garden corridor - come see industrial areas of Holland, hmm...

[Chris Pringle]

Pick the right Saturday to go, and you can get a warm welcome in Carentan:
http://guerriersdumarais.blogspot.co.uk/p/le-club.html
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/training-flights.html

Apparently there is also civilization in Valognes, though I haven't been there myself:
http://aigles-et-bannieres.forumactif.org/

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info

[JeffNNN]

Haven't been to Normandy since I was a kid - must be 30-35 years ago. Still remember the Bayeux Tapestry, and the American Cemetery at Omaha.

Really want to go back - how to persuade the rest of the family that this is a good holiday destination...

Might be an easier sell than the Market Garden corridor - come see industrial areas of Holland, hmm...

There's a  (or there was) Centre Parks site in Holland not too far away. That's what I did a few years ago.

[OldenBUA]

Probably not a good reason as well: http://figz.nl Wargaming & miniatures event in the Netherlands Sunday 4 June 2017, Arnhem (NL)

Maybe if you like your garden stuff: https://appeltern.nl/en/ Appeltern has more than 200 model gardens, situated in the area between the Meuse and Waal rivers in the village of Appeltern. The closest towns are Tiel, Nijmegen and Oss.

Alex

PS For industrial areas in Holland, I suggest Rotterdam. Arnhem is situated in Gelderland.

[Dave]

For the first day its

battery du mont canisy
Merville battery
Pegasus bridge museum

I did Arnhem last year, getting the train out and walking in two of the routes taken by the paras - going through the rail viaduct, museums and then on to Nijmegen.

Dave

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Youse obvois paid tooo MUCH

[Subedai]

Might sound a bit odd this - go somewhere special - and get some soil for your bases! The beaches are obvious, but try to go up Hill112. Take a jam jar and bring back some basing material.

Continuing on that theme, I have sand from the Sahara -very fine so good for 6mm building and castle walls, small rocks from Parma for any Mediterranean type broken terrain, sand from Bray Dunes for WWII Early War bases and well as some other mementoes from around Europe and beyond.

My friend and his missus go with us to where we have what we call our holiday home from home in a small village not far from Wormhouldt and Bergues in northern France. The whole area is right across the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and even earlier, the Battle of Hondschoote 1793, at the end of a campaign when troops from both the fledgling French Republic and an Allied army under the Duke of York trampled the whole region. I have loads of pictures of buildings to copy in 6mm for the WW II period. (Sad, I know).

I can also recommend Cassis, a black current liqueur (apparently made in Normandy), that is great with lemonade.

MickS