In the footstep of HEROES
Duration
5 days
When
June 2019
Why?
Enjoy panoramic views of sweeping beaches and learn about the historic achievements of WWII heroes
Reclining on the deck of the Brittany Ferries Normandie super-ferry in the early summer sunshine, I pondered how I might have had to make this journey 70-odd years earlier.
Would I have preferred to travel by sea, in a wildly rocking landing craft, with freezing water lashing over the sides, and bombs and shells falling all around in a macabre lottery, where luck, not talent or skill, was your only ally?
Or would I rather have made an airborne crossing in a wooden Horsa glider, towed by a four-engined plane and released to the vagaries of the unseasonal summer weather, to essentially crash-land in enemy territory? I thanked my lucky stars that these are options we’ve never had to contemplate, largely because of the sacrifices made in Normandy all those years ago.
D-Day (known then as Operation Neptune) is marked and commemorated on 6 June every year in northern France, and
