"Normandy D-Day day Tour" a Caen Travel Page by crodri1

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Cityrama tour bus

Planning the trip

When my in-laws decided to visit us in Paris, my FIL one request was that he wanted to possibly go out to Normandy and see the US D-Day landing beaches. My husband and I thought this would be a great idea and started looking at how would could all head over to the area.

My husband and I do not have a car in Paris as we take the Metro or RER trains wherever we need to go. As a result we began by looking at how we could get to Caen by train and/or rental car. We soon ruled out taking the train because it seemed to only take us to the Normandy are and then we were on our own on how to get to each specific historical site. Also, because we cancelled our US car insurance, the price of renting a car was going to be astronomical for such a short period of time. We also were not too keen on possibly getting lost and not even knowing how to ask anyone for directions.

In the end, we decided to go with a tour bus company. We found that Cityrama had a 1 day tour to Normandy that would take us to all the places we wanted to see and the price included entrance fees to the Caen Peace Museum and lunch. We did hear from different people that taking a bus tour would not allow us to spend enough time at each location, but we decided to chance it anyway.

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Normandy... beautiful countryside

I know a lot of people asociate Normandy with just D-Day and if you're relatively young, you probably only know the area because of recent movies/shows (Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc.). Normandy is a beautiful area of France. Yes, there are signs of war in random places like highway roundabout statues and monuments and small local museums, but today it is a quiet, green area with lots of little small towns scattered here and there... I can imagine it was the same 60+ years ago.