Flower viewing in Holland

bookmama22
Wed, 11 Nov 2015 01:09:56 +0000

If you are going to be heading to Normandy for the WWII sights I recommend staying in Bayeux. Not only is it a great stopping place for touring the beaches, it is a beautiful town that was not destroyed during the war, it is also the home of the Bayeux Tapistry and has a cathedral that is almost the size of Notre Dame. It also has a bit of a feel of Bruge with a canal running through part of town. DH and toured the Normandy beaches last year and ended our trip in Paris. On a different trip we spent time in Amsterdam and then drove to Bruge for 2 nights and drove back to the Amsterdam airport. When we toured the Normandy beaches last year along with Mont St Michel, we spent an afternoon at the museum in Caen which I would definitely recommend as a very good overview. We also stopped at Etrat and Honfleur as sites painted by the Impressionists. Honfleur has a lovely old historic port area. If you see the rock formations at Etrat, you can also see the paintings of the rock formations in Paris if you visit the Musee Dorsay.
I have good hotel to recommend in Paris, the Muguet, great location. I also have a great B & B recommendation for Bayeux. Oh, we also stayed one night in Rouen en route from the Paris airport and on the way into Paris we stopped at Chartres.