* France - Normandy, the Landing Beaches

Arrive in Caen in time for lunch. Visit the Caen Memorial, a Museum for Peace, perhaps the best World War II museum in France whose striking collection of objects and archives is presented in a lifelike and original display that brings the past to life. Dinner and overnight.Group trip. 

Set off along the "Côte de Nacre" towards Arromanches and visit the D-Day Landings Museum. Continue to Longues sur Mer and free time to explore the Artillery Bunkers where powerful German forces were finally silenced on 6^th June 1944.. Fish lunch then on to Omaha Beach to visit the American Military Cemetery. Continue as far as the Pointe du Hoc headland and Grandcamp Maisy, then back to the hotel. Dinner and overnight.

Direction the "Côte Fleurie" and the fashionable seaside resorts of Deauville, Trouville and Honfleur. Tasting session of cider and calvados, two of the region's most popular tipples. Lunch then across the Normandy Bridge towards Fecamp and the dramatic white cliffs at Etretat. Visit to the Benedictine Palace, the fabulous building housing various art treasures as well as the distillery that makes the famous liqueur of the same name, and a chance to sample. Dinner and overnight.Group trip.

Admire the famous Bayeux Tapestry recounting the different stages of Duke William's Norman conquest. Lunch follows.Group trip.