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| The Carnac Alignments - a collection of megalithic stones that pre date Stonehenge by 100 years or so. These stones are spread over km's of fields |
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| A common countryside sight along France this time of the year. Fields full of bright yellow, rapeseed flowers. |
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| Carnac, a typical looking French village |
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| Saint-Malo is the best walled town we have visited. You can walk right around the top of the wall of the beautiful old town, enjoying wonderful ocean views, narrow streets and the original old buildings |
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| Part of the city wall at St Malo |
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| Streets within the walls of Saint-Malo |
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| Walking around the Saint-Malo wall |
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| A delicious and decadent seafood lunch - this was funded by our fine jar (which is now empty). Any inappropriate behaviour was a fine! |
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| St Marie-Eglise, a small village in Normandy near the D Day beaches. Some of the paratroopers from the Airborne division landed here for the D Day. Two paratroopers landed on this church and managed to survive. |
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| On the wall of the St Maire-Elise church you can see a paratrooper, this is a memorial to the 2 men that landed on it back in June 1944. |
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| Paratroopers in the stained glass at the St Maire-Elise church |
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| Utah Beach, where the Americans landed on D Day |
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| Memorial at Omaha beach, Normandy. Our Omaha beach in NZ is quite similar to the Omaha beach in Normandy. I wonder if this is how it was named? |
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| Part of the American cemetery at Omaha beach, quite a sobering day. |
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