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Le trip to Le Menez Hom
Fred:
Then, more tourism! :D
This time, in Locronan, an entire village dedicated to handcraft artisans
We arrived under the showers, but the weather got better later. If I remember, this is pretty much the only rain we had :?:
And with St Ronan everywhere!
Oh, and with a nice shop... dedicated to beers!!... BEERS!!
Oh, and we ended up in a wedding too...
So of course... :D
And guess what... They even have a linen museum! (not too sure how we ended up in there still! :lol: )
And after that, the usual food / wine / laughs! :D Ready for the last day of the event.
JohnPearson:
Ok more pics.
I can't recall the name of this village, but it was lovely to walk round.
Ronan's beer cellar!!
And they lived happy ever after!!
Last night at the campsite, we all attended the pilots and family dinner evening.
Roisin decided Fred's hair needed a little work! :lol:
JohnPearson:
We travelled back to Ronans house on the Sunday, however, we stopped off in Saint Malo, just can't find the pics yet, we post later! :?:
On the Monday, Ronan took over the driving, so we visited the D-Day locations and museums along the coast.
First stop was the Pegasus bridge museum at Caen. This is the bridge that the british 6th airborn made a glider assault to take and hold the bridge.
We next visited the Gun battery at Merville which was the target for the british 9th airborn on the night before D-day.
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more to follow!
JohnPearson:
Next stop on our tour, was the D-day beachs,Sword, juno, Gold, Omaha and Point Du Hoc. The only place we did not visit was Utah.
Sword beach head with the an old bunker still standing.
Left view.
Gold and Juno beach landing areas.
Omaha beach head, you can still see the shell craters around the German strong points. Over 2900 men lost their lives on this stretch of sand on the first day of D-day! :cry:
looking down the beach at Omaha.
Looking up the beach towards point du huc.
Next stop on our tour and the last for the day was the cliff gun battery and bunkers on the Point Du Hoc. This strong hold was attacked by the US Rangers, which climbed the cliffs under fire on D-day only to find that the big guns had been removed only a few weeks before the raid, and found telegraph poles in the gun bunkers, they too lost alot of man in taking the gun battery.
Roisin standing in one of the shell craters
A view of the cliffs the Rangers had to over come on D-day.
Isabelle in the main command bunker
Brave men, all of them....
Fred:
Ok, my turn :P :D
Last day of flying, still with big winds conditions, but still coming from the left.
A MU28... Same as Keith's one (but finished... :-# :mrgreen: )
Oh, an orange glider again :P
Ronan and Alain
That L213 made a few people drooling!
Ronan had to explain in detail the exact location of things :lol:
Prep work of Robby's Gilles Gohier(rip) build 1/3 scale Duo Discus (but extended wingspan to 6.9m). Emotional moment for Robby.
This Kobuz did VTPR aeros all day at the slope! Very nice machine (if you like the Kobuz shape though)
Oh, and there is a new aerobat in town... :)
The trophy table
Michel and Alain, chairman of the Morlaix and Brest MAC with a final words for all of us. This put an end to the 20th anniversary of the Menez Hom meeting :cry:
We all went back to the campsite, where a dinner was organised for all pilots and family
No shame! :lol:
That night of course, ended up late with some more beverages back at the mobile home. I think we even got lost at some point, but not sure! :lol: :lol:
Next morning, plan was to head back to Ronan's house early, with a stop at St Malo...
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