Further afield, heading south west toward Brittany, you'll find Bayeux , the WWII landings beaches and the islet of Mont St Michel . I travel with a navigator, its great, type in the location hit go and it takes me there, but, I never leave home without a paper map. On my second trip with France Just For You (FJFY) this October I drove through Normandy and Brittaney.

Bayeux is home to the tapestry that carries its name, and is also a town full of museums, split between the war and artisan crafts practiced here. At the same time, another Norman dynasty settled down in Sicily and as far as Syria (Antioch) during the Crusades. She fills her days with swimming, fishing, quilting, and baiting the tourists who arrive from the city with more money than sense. Their customized and detailed guidebook covers everything you need to know about visiting France from practical information about traffic signs to insights about the French people and their customs.About one hour and a half from Bayeux towards the South-West is one of the most visited places in France. Shortly after midnight in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944, three Allied airborne divisions began landing in Normandy. Road Map Normandy includes information on toll points, service areas, road numbers, motorways, dual carriageways and wide and narrow local roads. A map entitled 'Cherbourg - Caen', France, 1:250,000 scale, Sheets 3a and 8, Army / Air Force, 1914, revised 1938, re-revised 1942. Satellite-derived base mapping with colouring for the forested areas and boundaries of national and regional parks showing the topography.

As you can see from the map, Normandy isn't so far from Paris, the train from Paris Saint-Lazare to Vernon (the closest stop to Giverny) takes around 45 minutes, running along the river Seine.aircraft) and landing paratroopers in the middle of the night the actual landings on the beaches started at 6:30 am.

These are very traditional seaside resorts with 19th century buildings overlooking the seafront and colorful umbrellas providing shade on the beach. This SplashMaps® Michelin derived Normandy Tourist map on fabric shows the great majority of the good roads in this part of France, and includes four famous French major tourist destinations (in the Department of Calvados) for great individual days out in either Caen (William the Conqueror’s Capital), Bayeux (for the 1066 invasion Tapestry), “aristocratic” and elegant Deauville, or Honfleur.You might wish to choose an artsy and scenic port city like Honfleur, where you'll find many hotels--or Caen. Find any address on the map of Normandie or calculate your itinerary to and from Normandie, find all the tourist attractions and Michelin Guide restaurants in Normandie. Often printed on fabric to support covert operations and resistance behind enemy lines, Escape and Evasion maps remain crucial in the liberation of airmen and in paving the way for successful campaigns today. Three months before the actual invasion, the Allies had already started massive bombardments on the French and Belgian railways to hinder the supply of German soldiers and military equipment.