Tag: Normandy

• Normandy in Colour – A Photo Post

  

  by Christina    Cemeteries can be quite bleak, somber places. Understandable, given what they are and what they symbolise. When I think about war cemeteries, this is the sort of thing I imagine – somewhere quiet and bleak and sombre. Recently I went to Normandy with Dan and we visited Bayeux War Cemetery and the […]

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  August 31, 2015

  France, Military, Photography, travel, War

  colour, France, marigny, Military, Normandy, travel, War, world war 2, ww2

• Looking for the Mystery Saint of Montcuit

  by Christina It’s Friday night and I’m home doing Internet research. It is infuriating because I can’t find what I’m looking for, and in this day and age, when does that ever happen anymore? Seriously – when was the last time you typed a search into Google and you just didn’t find a single thing? […]

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  July 14, 2014

  France, War

  bayeux, catholic, Church, eglise, France, montcuit, Normandy, travel, War

• Normandy on D-Day and Other Stories

  I spent D-Day 2013 in Normandy, and more specifically, in Bayeux and Arromanches; the latter staring out at Port Winston and Gold Beach, imagining what it must have been like that bloody, horrific day in 1944. The streets of the town are buoyant – full of American rock n roll music blasting out of the […]

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  June 17, 2013

  France, Lost, Military, Photography, Visits, War

  1944, Cemetery, d-day, France, German, Germany Military Cemetery, Gravestones, Graveyard, Iris Jones Photography, Normandie, Normandy, War, Wartime, World War II