Plan Ahead: Since some of Normandy's D-Day beaches sit roughly 200 miles northwest of Paris, you're in for a full day, but the rolling hills and lush pastures of the French countryside create a scenic ...

If you'd rather let someone else do the driving, recent visitors recommend ... groups commemorating the anniversary. Thanks to Normandy's unpredictable weather, you'll want to dress in layers ...

We needed to visit the D-Day landing sites in Normandy ... some of the places we’ve visited and things we’ve experienced, and we’ve tried to do it in a way that’s serious but age-appropriate.

Normandy is only just across the Channel from ... As we're in the countryside, in winter there are not many other things to do. Dinner - le dîner is often eaten later in France, sometimes around ...

As decades pass, D-Day anniversaries in Normandy have become ... “There are things worth fighting for. Although I wish there was another way to do it than to try to kill each other.

Eisenhower Returns to Normandy." Read Next ... "I told him he couldn't do it," Eisenhower said of Churchill's plan to be aboard a British ship to get up close to the landings, but then Churchill ...