MONDAY - POINTE DU HOC, COLLEVILLE -SUR-MER, PORT EN BESSIN AND MORE...!
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- MONDAY AND A WONDERFUL FIRST DAY OUT IN NORMANDY...
Knowing our preference for quiet, smaller roads I chose a route out to Point du Hoc that all should enjoy - along largely deserted rural roads, save for a few cyclists - and through some Normandy villages that look like they haven't changed in years.
When we arrived at Point du Hoc I was very put out to find that matters WOKE and "Health and Safety" had encroached on this historic site. There were people who had travelled far further than us so see where the US Rangers had scaled the cliffs to take the big guns....but no...we were not permitted to see the cliffs or the most important gun emplacement on the pointe itself. Very annoying.
Then on to the American War cemetery in Colleville - always an emotionally moving location but more disappointment. The graves, where people could walk and find their loved ones or for the others of us to look and be shocked at the age of these boys, had all been roped off. No flowers or flags on the graves that I had seen on previous visits. WHY??
Then on to Port en Bessin - we wanted to sit in a cafe and have a sandwich of icecream but....NO...only coffee, tea or beer available !! What the hell is going on?
Finally to the gun battery at Longues sur Mer - well preserved with guns in place.
In the evening we went to a restaurant called "La Manufacture", just around the corner from the hotel...some of us enjoyed a nightcap and review of the day when we got back to the hotel!
A good day - very busy!
@RobLittleuk
FAT MAN, TINY BIKE...5 JOURS EN NORMANDIE !!
Lest We Forget ,Thanks for sharing 👍
Yes indeed Paul...
Lovely video - Thankyou Rob.
I’ve been a couple of times to Normandy, it is such a humbling place. Waking around the British and Commonwealth cemetery I found really tough, reading the individual and personal inscriptions to fallen sons and fathers from their families. Definite tear in my eye.
Keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing the next video in the series.
Thanks Ian - trying to publish on a Monday and Friday - 3 more to come!
Very enjoyable video Rob, a nice reminder when I was on my Normandy trip. The hell of D-day now all quiet and back to normal after the slaughter of 80 years ago. I have no problem with the music or voice overs when your sound equipment fails. Looking forward to the next one Rob. 😊👍🏍 NJ
@@johnimmins7302 thanks John
Great video Rob, Thanks.
You're welcome John
Hi Rob, thanks for making the video. Colleville-sur-mer had me moved to tears when i saw it on your video. Such a sad scene and such a waste of human life. "All together now" seems an appropriate piece of music for this reminding us of what our forefathers fought for. Hope you had a good trip and safe riding. 🙂
It was a brilliant trip and yes the American Cemetery, which I have visited many times, always brings a tear to my eye not least the last time I was there on a drizzly day and this American choir struck up - see:
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Lovely video, great to watch you all out riding. Songs were great and sing along while watching 👍🏻
Glad ytou enjoyed !
Very moving footage Rob. I've done a similar trip. The ages on the headstones of the fallen is most upsetting. Thanks to them, I've achieved three times their age 😔
@@dougbates1770 it’s a very moving place to visit
Lest we forget
Thanks for video Rob
Thanks and yes...with you on that
Lovely video rob I can understand the frustration of not getting to the cliffs. But a very somber place. What those men sacrificed we can’t thank them enough.
Very much agree Colin
@@RobLittleuk forgot to ask how’s the ribs.
@@218colin1 Better....8/10 id say thanks for asking!
Done the many fields and also part Belgium graves. I am 66 and my grandad a 2nd WW vet used to talk to me a lot about war when I was I think 10 yrs oldish but I have never forgotten his stark warnings about man and it’s “ leaders” sacrificing young lives for money 1st and freedom 2nd. It makes toy feel very strange and affected seeing this. When life treats me badly I go to the arboretum in Lichfield, it soon sobers me up. I think the shocking thing is the sheer numbers and at 66 their ages and what I was doing at that age, a life deprived of. Love the channel and vlogs
You words ring very true...never been to Lichfield....must go sometime.
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Rob, you are not professional vlogger for people to demand better or different. You do what you can, experiment over time and will be fine. You are right about the safety culture, it's getting absurd.
It surely is Stefan !!
My brother and my nephew use those helmet intercoms, being half deaf i never bother, they also use high tech navigation stuff, me i stick to a map and route notes
Tech does not work for me 😂
Smaller motorcycles work so much better on those roads
Prefer maps but use GPS for practicality
@@RobLittleuk I have used it on the phone to find a location,but I am a technical nightmare 😁 I did once use the bikes tracker to find out where I was,which oddly was miles off course as usual
Do you ever swap bikes on your trips, and talk about the differences and advantages etc ? ,as you and your friends have a wide range of interesting machines ? Perhaps another video on road tests ?
@@russthebiker Actually, no, we did not swap bikes - doesn't seem to happen