Thanks Vincent!
Time for the first update...
Day 0:
800 kilometres to Normandy via Cologne, Aachen, Liège, Mons, Cambrai, Amiens and Le Havre. Lots of well-known places if you're familiar with 20th Century history. We took a little detour through the Somme battlefields, passing dozens of memorials and cemetaries. I didn't take photos since we were running a little late already. Most exhausting birthday I've had in a while...
Day 1:
Still utterly exhausted we kept things simple and went to Pegasus Bridge, only to end up in a huge traffic jam as the bridge was open for about an hour to let dozens of sailing boats pass. Might have had something to do with the wacky adventures of a Norman Duke 950 years ago...
Pegasus Bridge is still the only connection between the eastern and western part of Normandy between Caen and the sea and it shows...
The Centaur tank located next to the Bridge has been relocated to the Museum on the other bank, now there is a Bofors gun as its replacement. Cloudy weather and too many people around to take proper photos, but I'll get there again...
Day 2:
We went further east to Honfleur on the Seine estuary, which pretty much looks like some 50's era pirate movie film set, except for the fact that it's all real:
Quite a sight to behold...
Philipp
I'll have my family with me so I can't go on a non stop military history rampage, but I'll see what I can do 
I might even attempt to post regular updates on the stuff we've visited.
