Walking the D-Day Beaches of Normandy
This walking tour of the D-Day beaches is based around some of the walks in Paul Reed's, our head guide, book; ‘Walking D-Day'. We walk Sword, Juno and Omaha Beaches seeing locations off the beaten track in Normandy, and also look at the American Airborne and British Airborne on D-Day seeing Brecourt Manor and Pegasus Bridge.
Tour Includes
- 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast
- Specialist Battlefield Guide
- Convenient local joining points
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Local departure by coach, then onwards to Caen for a four-night stay.
Walk 2: After lunchtime in Courseulles, our second walk follows the Canadian landings at Juno Beach. Here we walk Mike Sector seeing where the Canadian, Scottish and Royal Winnipegs fought. We see the beach itself and walk the German defences, look at the story of ‘Cosey’s Bunker’ and see an original D-Day Churchill AVRE that landed in support of the Canadians.
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Key Visits
Walk 4: Following lunch we go to St. Marie du Mont where we follow the story of the ‘Band of Brothers’ on D-Day seeing locations in the town connected with their story and then walking through the bocage lanes to Brecourt Manor to examine Richard Winters assault on the gun battery here.
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Walk 5: Today we look at the role of British Airborne and Commandos from D-Day onwards in the so-called ‘Eastern Flank’ walking the ground between the villages of Amfreville and Breville, the scene of heavy fighting in June 1944. We spend lunchtime at Pegasus Bridge and in the afternoon take time off or join us on an optional tour to Merville Battery where we look at the attack here by 9th Battalion Parachute Regiment on D-Day seeing the Merville bunkers and museum.
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Return home.
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Accommodation
You will stay for four nights at the 3-star Sure by Best Western Caen Memorial Hotel or the 3-star Ibis Falaise - Coeur de Normandie.
Reviews
4.8 Out of 5 ( 4 Reviews )
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Quality
4.8 / 5
Value for Money
4.8 / 5
Ciaran Heney, 2 years ago
Great holiday, Paul and Ben have amazing knowledge of the Normandy landings, hotel 2* was ok, purchased evening meal every night and food was excellent, and priced reasonably, transport side of the holiday involving pickups and transfers was also excellent. Thank you for a wonderful holiday.
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Mr Taylor, 2 years ago
The guides and the walks were fantastic. The hotel less so.
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S Gil, 2 years ago
The walking tour was really achievable, about 3 miles per walk. Both Leger guides were knowledgeable and enthusiastic. A great holiday
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Alan Malloy, 2 years ago
Enjoyed this trip and it fulfilled expectations. This was mainly because of the quality of the guides, Fred and Lawrence. Also the drivers on our coach, Sonia and Larry. who did everything possible to make our outbound and inbound journeys as comfortable as possible. The only negative was the amount of time we were all held up at French customs at Calais. This 3 hour delay meant that we missed our intended ferry an led to delays in getting home. While I understand this is no fault of anyone at Leger as it was solely down to the indolence of the French border guards; If there is any chance of giving some feedback to the French border guards on this issue I believe it should be done. In my view and others on the coach French border guards seemed to take a perverse delight in ensuring everyone on a coach passing through Calais were inconvenienced as much as possible. It completely soured an otherwise enjoyable tour..
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