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Sunday April 5, 2026 Normandy France

By Ellen Outten
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  The entrance to the D-Day memorial museum  Our day started with an early breakfast and the bus left at 7:45 am for the 2 hour ride to Caen France and the D-Day museum. There was a 20 minute film as well as some very well done exhibits.  The museum concentrated on the years leading up to the war and then the actual battle on D-Day, June 6, 1944. We were able to go down inside this bunker on which the museum is situated.   There are exhibits in the bunker now but you can imagine it as the real thing. We had lunch in the museum, included in the tour, and then we were off to the Cemetery.  This was a very moving experience.  Viking had a ceremony performed by the cemetery officials and laid a wreath, the US national anthem was played and taps were blown. The wreath laid by Viking during the ceremony  A view of Omaha Beach from the cemetery  Our last stop of the day was at Omaha Beach.   We were able to walk in the beach and look over the Englis...
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Saturday April 4, 2026 Rouen France

By Ellen Outten
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  The  unofficial name of our room on the ship, The Swan Room Our rooms are in the basement, and we are occasionally eye level with the floating swans. Today we docked at about noon in Rouen.  We sailed all morning from Vernon  France.   In Rouen, we are approximately 70 miles north of Paris and approximately 70 miles from the coast and the English Channel. We had an afternoon walking tour of Rouen and of course we visited a church.  It is a massive gothic church, the Cathedral  Notre Dame de Rouen built in the 12th century. Across the street from the cathedral stands a building where Monet had his studio and painted the church may times. Monet’s studio After a nice tour of the cat and the beautiful stained glass windows, some of which were missing from the bombings of World War II, we walked through the medieval streets of the city centre of Rouen and admired some of the older structures.   This click has no hands.  It dates to the 14th cent...
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