We shall ride them on the beaches...
 

Righto allies, this is your chance to do something you won't regret, join me, Captain Awesome for an assault on the beaches of Northern France

The rough plan is to hit the WW2 sites, on or around the weekend of the 6th June 2010.

Anyone interested? I'd prefer to take some time and do it properly, perhaps taking week from Sunday to Sunday

Looking for up to ten bikes ideally, over that and organising the group could well prove difficult and accommodation could be an issue...

Which brings us to the subject, are people happy camping or do we want B&Bs / hotels??

Anyway, add your names if you're interested...

1. TLW


If a few people are interested I'll start looking at prices and locations

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Did this last year, there is sooo much to see, you'll struggle to fit it in in a few days or you'll miss stuff.

Highlights for me were

Pegasus Bridge Visitors museum
American War Cemetary - well not so much a highlight it was quite sobering, but something I think everybody should see.

I did a write up with pics here if you havent already seen it

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=118005

If I was going again. I wouldnt get the night ferry. I'd take the Fast ferry and leave myself the whole day to travel where I was going to and vice versa when coming back.

I reckon you want a good few days, we struggled to fit everything in in the time we had.

Theres a guy on the gixerjunkies forum who does guided tours, he's a biker and his tours are setup for bikers, he has a place to stay as well. So might be worth contacting him.

Heres his website, I've nattered to him a bit on the junkies forum, seems like a decent guy and very knowledgable about his subject matter...

http://www.freewebs.com/gixajak/

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1. TLW
2. Rich

A week away sounds perfect to me, and if theres anything I can do to help then I will.

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Oi Captain Awesome, you are sure you want to go on that weekend ? I'm sure you realise the significance of that date, I would imagine it might prove rather popular with WW2 veterans...

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The date was chosen specifically because of it's significance, you reckon it'd be a bad idea to go then? I reckon it'd be the time when everything is likely to be well polished and presented:-k

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I reckon it'll be heaving and you wont be able to have a good look at anything... but thats just me. I'd rather have time and space to look round ay everything.

Of course being when it is, I bet the atmosphere will more than likely be fantastic with all the extra stuff that will no doubt be laid on. I know the guy on the Gixerjunkies forum I talked to said it was fantastic to sit and talk to the vets and listen to them tell all their stories, so thats another element to it all to.

TBH when we went in September last year everything was well polished and presented. The french seem to have massive respect for what the Allied forces did on D day. The American war cemetary was absoloutly immaculate.

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1. TLW
2. Rich
3. wideboy

definitely in, arromanches is a must

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I can only fit one Euro trip in per year and I've already decided to do Spa Francorchamps and Nurburgring other wise it would have been yes.

Don't know why I posted this really. :lol:

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In a valiant but ultimately doomed attempt to keep your post count above mine???;):p

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