Top 10 off-the-beaten-track D-Day sites

Top 10 off-the-beaten-track D-Day sites

Thought you’d seen it all? Get off the beaten track and visit some of the lesser-known sites with equally important D-Day history. Here are the sites to discover about D-Day off the beaten track. Remembering at the flame memorial This flame, symbol of Liberation, is engraved with the names of the 177 french soldiers who […]

Fly over the D-Day landing beaches in a helicopter

Fly over the D-Day landing beaches in a helicopter

The big day has arrived! We are going on a first flight in helicopter. And for this first time, we have chosen to fly over Pegasus Bridge and Sword Beach with the company Héli Evènements. The weather conditions are ideal: a clear blue sky, no wind and exceptional visibility. The flight could indeed take place. […]

Meet the Vikings in Ornavik!

Meet the Vikings in Ornavik!

Everyone knows more or less about the history of Vikings. What’s less known, is how they lived at that time. We went to the Ornavik historical park in Hérouville Saint Clair, to meet the Vikings and the Carolingian inhabitants who brought the village to life. In addition to discovering how they lived at the time, […]

A Bucolic interlude in Caen’s dormant cemeteries

A Bucolic interlude in Caen’s dormant cemeteries

During your stay in Caen, visiting the dormant cemeteries is an opportunity to discover unusual and little-known places. Away from the business of the city, these small green spaces have become places where people like to have a stroll. This kind of visit can seem odd, but the scenery invites to romanticism with century-old trees […]

Seal watching in the Orne estuary

Seal watching in the Orne estuary

Encountering a marine mammal in its natural environment is an unforgettable experience! But how do you observe them without disturbing them? These wild and protected animals have plenty of secrets to reveal to us on a calf seal observation trip in the Orne estuary. Nature outing with the Groupe Mammalogique Normand (Gmn) The meeting point […]

The Abbaye d’Ardenne, a hidden treasure

The Abbaye d’Ardenne, a hidden treasure

At only a five minutes car ride from Caen, the Abbaye d’Ardenne is an incredible place of interest to visit!Administered by the Normandie Region Council, the IMEC (Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives) is situated inside the abbey, in the monumental library of the abbey’s church. Come with us to the monastic quietness of the abbey […]