I have been off line for a couple of weeks, but I have been very busy. The first long weekend was spent with my four brothers on our annual get together. This year we met up in Normandy. It was just a little before the 75th anniversary of the D Day Landings, and we seem to have a bit of a theme going through our meets, WWI last year!
We started out with the Omaha Beach Landing Museum and the Operation Overlord and the iconic action where a soldier was suspended on the church tower and survived. Just to emphasis in the picture is a dummy, not a real person.
The museums were very well set out and we spent hours going round them.
We visited the Arromanches Museum where after the landings one of the two Mulberry Harbours were built. The British Built one here survived and as you can see is still to be seen today.
We visited Bayeux too and the lovely cathedral. The tapestry is on tour I believe.
On our last day we visited Sword Beach which is close to the ferry terminal. It is also where our father played his part in the fantastic venture and defined a generation or two. He was on HMS Largs, the HQ ship for Sword Beach. There is nothing about the British here, no museum, but poignantly several memorials and war grave sites. How ever this German bunker is an excellent museum. It survived aerial and naval bombardment as it was mis-interpenetrated.
The Americans have provided many museums along the landing site. The Canadians have got an official place where Cnadaian youths show you round, like at Vimy Ridge WWI, but there is almost nothing to say the British were there!
This last weekend I was down in Bournemouth at the British Barbershop Convention competing as a chorus, our first time. We came 30th out of 35! We will definitely do better next time.
The first link is us. We have been going 18 months and it is out first time at any competition.
This second link are the winners. I'm not sure how you compare the two, but it was a great weekend.
Back to the boating now, at least for a a couple of weeks.
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