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Germany/France trip pics-set 11

17 years ago

Mont St.-Michel continued:

Arromanches, France. Canadian D-day landing beach:

Our hotel from the beach, at night the tide would come in and you could hear the surf crashing below us. I wanted to go down and get a picture but was too exhausted to put my shoes back and and get dressed...now I wish I had. It was cold and windy most of the time we were there:

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Jamie_LA
17 years ago
Kath, I don't post often, but I gotta tell ya, I am enjoying your pics soooo much!! Hope you have LOTS more. Thank you so much!
glenda_al
17 years ago
Sure enjoying your pictures.

Thanks a lot!
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One thing to note is that pork/pigs have been bred for lean meat in the last few decades in the US, but NOT necessarily in EU/Germany. So the wonderfully tender pork you may experience in the EU is not the same and cannot be replicated into recipes in the US. Just an FYI, in case one thinks the EU has stellar pork cooking techniques (which they may), but not as much as you might think. Think of prime US beef ribeye (fatty) vs. choice NY strip (fairly lean) and you'll get the idea.
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That's really interesting Kath! I'd want to take the longer tour too. The beach makes me sad-I've seen it in so many movies. Danielle
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Mtnwomanbc, it was the hotel St. Louis-Marais. The staircase in their picture looks wide, but it's actually very narrow and kinda slanted. The carpet on it was filthy. We weren't too far from the river and Notre Dame. Danielle, that was the girl's room. Three of us stayed in there. The boys had their own room on the main floor. The only rooms in Europe that accomadate 4 people are the youth hostels. They occationally had triple rooms, like this one so to make it cheaper, Judy, my co-worker shared with me and Lauren. I don't ever plan on going back. The whole area where we stayed smelled like urine. It was gross.
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flowerpotmama
17 years ago
Very interesting! Your daughter is beautiful!

Danielle
Kathsgrdn
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks Danielle.
flowerpotmama
17 years ago
You are very welcome!

Danielle
kframe19
17 years ago
Neat... Those concrete slabs and the thing that looks like a concrete boat in pix 9 and 10?

I think those are part of the British Mulberry Harbor and pier from the D-Day Invasion.

The Allies needed a harbor in which they could land supplies for the troops after the invasion, but the established harbors were very heavily defended by the Germans.

So, the Americans and British simply built two very functional harbors called Mulberries. They were towed across during the invasion, and after the beaches had been secured sunk and set up.

Unfortunately the American engineers focused on speed rather than securing the sections of the harbor. They wanted to get it in operation as quickly as possible, while the British and Canadian took the time to properly secure their Mulberry.

The American Mulberry was almost completely destroyed in a massive channel storm shortly after the invasion. The British Mulberry, while heavily damaged, was still usable.
Kathsgrdn
Original Author
17 years ago
You're right Kframe, they are.
carol_in_california
17 years ago
Kath, I have really enjoyed your vacation thru your pictures.
You really have a good eye.
Lauren is really a pretty young woman....she looks a lot like you, doesn't she?

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