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Day4: 3rd June

September 1, 2012 – 6:13 pm

Lost in France… as usual Having had a very nice breakfast & a sort of chat with a French couple also staying at the Brewery, (‘though their English was not as good as my French!) we set off for a tour around the loop of the River Seine that Canteleu sits in as the weather […]

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Day3: 2nd June

September 1, 2012 – 4:27 pm

Still in England This was the last day that we would see England for a while, so, bearing in mind our departure time on the Chunnel, we had a stroll around an early Saturday-morning Canterbury before heading off towards the terminal. However, we needed food & being aware that a new brew pub had set […]

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Day2: 1st June

August 29, 2012 – 1:52 pm

Friday saw us heading round & into Kent, initially heading for Herne Bay followed by Reculver, RAF Manston & Plucks Gutter (honest!) before ending up in Canterbury for the evening. We’d decided not to eat at the hotel & instead, once round the south of London on the M25, headed off the motorway in search […]

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Day1: 31st May

August 28, 2012 – 11:16 pm

Having planned our trip in reasonable detail, we decided on a change almost immediately when the opportunity presented itself to travel down early & meet up with Stuart Hadaway. Stuart used to work at the RAF Museum in Hendon & was exceptionally helpful in assisting the research I have done on Flt Lt John Harder. […]

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Normandy June 2012 trip summary

August 28, 2012 – 11:14 pm

I actually started this in the Eurotunnel terminus waiting for our train (must be a song in there, somewhere), as the plan was, rather than in previous years when I’ve waited until after the trip to do any updates, this time to try to do daily updates. However, as any military historian will tell you: No plan […]

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Planning Normandy June 2012

March 9, 2012 – 9:04 pm

Just starting the planning for this year’s trip to Normandy – so many places to see, so much to do! At the moment, it’s looking as though we’ll be travelling over the weekend before 6th June & returning the weekend after; as last year, we’re also hoping to attend the services at St Charles de […]

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Normandy Trip – July 2011

December 22, 2011 – 9:53 pm

Normandy Trip July 2011 The first day As we had in July last year, Glyn and I set off looking forward to this trip as for part of it we would be in the company of a relative of one of the “men in the shed”. On this occasion, it would be Bobbie Harder, one […]

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4th July

July 4, 2011 – 4:55 pm

Happy 4th July to all of my American readers; hope that you have a great holiday

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More updates to the site

June 20, 2011 – 10:18 pm

Just added a “proper” contact form here  which will (hopefully) make contacting me more straightforward

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It’s Alive!!

June 2, 2011 – 1:47 pm

Couldn’t resist the quote from the “Frankenstein” movie, but the site is now up & “out there” Thanks to the guys at http://www.asone.co.uk/ who built the outline of the site & particularly Joel, Adam & Phil who put up with some of my daft questions! A little plug for AsOne – they recently won an award […]

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