Tag: Wartime
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Outside London: The Cliffs of St Bees Part II
by Christina I feel like I was a little harsh on St Bees when I last wrote about it. The beach was not the prettiest I have ever seen, it’s true, but it was a sunny day and the village was gorgeous and there were hulking sandstone cliffs that I nearly slid off of…
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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…
Cemetery Club 