France

While in Paris, we ate dinner at a terrible vegetarian restaurant where they happened to be filming Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Here’s a clip of us from the show. So, it turns out that the entire video was posted on youtube, the first part is here: http://youtube.com/watc

Eiffel Tower lit up at night. We took a flight to Paris yesterday afternoon.  It’s an 11 hour flight and a 9 hour time difference so you don’t actually “lose” that much time.  We got really lucky and got front row bulkhead.   Lots of legroom. Paris Plage –

Sunday we visited the Memorial de Caen. It’s a museum which relates the events which lead up to the D-Day landing, and has a memorial to the Canadian and American soldiers in the gardens behind it. The British are currently building a memorial. More Canadians were actually kille

Memorial to the parachutists. For Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veteran’s Day (November 11th), we spent the weekend visiting the D-Day Beaches in Normandy.  We started at a memorial to the parachutists who landed near Sainte Mere-Eglise. One of them got stuck on the church