Curiosities of Arromanches les Bains !!!

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I have come back in my road warrior trails of my belle France and Normandy is tops ; see my many posts on it in my blog, I needed to be back and did in grand style me think. Nice experiences which had made us come back again to historically Arromanches les Bains, Therefore, let me tell you about curiosities of Arromanches les Bains !!! Hope you enjoy it as I.

The village of Arromanches-les-Bains, aka Arromanches, is located in the Calvados department no. 14 in the Normandie region of my belle France. It is 11 km from Bayeux, 29 km from Caen, 261 km from Versailles ,and 313 km from my current home. The town is accessed from Bayeux via the D 516 from where we came, From here we also, went back home.

This time we took a light lunch of ice creams by the beach on place six juin de 1944 near the museum and found a great place Les Glaciers Normands! Friendly service great ices and the view of the square all wonderful, I had my American milkshake with strawberries and banana ice creams! See pics arriving and others, The RestaurantGuru reviews on Les Glaciers Normands: https://fr.restaurantguru.com/Les-Glaciers-Normands-Arromanches-les-Bains

The above ice cream parlor is located on the Place du Six Juin 1944 which is also, where the Landing museum is, (see post), A vibrant street full of shops and restos right next to the beach, fun guarantee, Pic taken from Les Glaciers Normands.

Passing we saw the mairie or city hall quite nice building which we seems to take pictures of all over! The mairie is located at rue Colonel René Michel.

The village of Arromanches les Bains remains famous as one of the historic sites of the Normandy landings under code name: Operation Neptune, notably for the artificial port that was built there. This port allowed the landing of 9,000 to 22,000 tons of material per day during the Battle of Caen. It was opposite the village of Arromanches that, during the Battle of Normandy, immediately after D-Day, on June 6, 1944, the Allies established Mulberry B, a temporary artificial port to allow the landing of heavy equipment, without waiting for the conquest of deep-water ports, such as those of Le Havre or Cherbourg. The British built enormous floating reinforced concrete caissons, called “Phoenix” which, after being towed floating across the Channel, had to be assembled side by side by sinking them thanks to the opening of bottom valves, in order to create quays and jetties forming a breakwater and delimiting the artificial port, including floating pontoons that followed the tides and were connected to the land by real floating causeways. A port was thus assembled offshore and, even today, some “Phoenix” caissons are visible offshore and testify to their solidity.

The town of Arromanches on its heritage : https://www.arromanches.com/patrimoine/

The memory routes site on Arromanches les Bains and the artificial bridges: https://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/en/arromanches-harbour

The Local Bayeux Bessin tourist office on Arromanches artificial harbor  : https://bayeux-bessin-tourisme.com/en/visits/museums/sites/arromanches-les-bains/arromanches-artificial-harbour

There you go folks, another dandy in beautiful Normandie, and my belle France,never enough time to see it all, This is a memorable spots that should be visited more, me think. Glad to be back, we had a great time indeed ! Again, hope you enjoy this post on curiosities of Arromanches les Bains !!! as I

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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