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Normandy & D-Day Beaches Road Trips
Discover the freedom of the open road with Normandy & D-Day Beaches Road Trips. We’ve selected four amazing road trips through Normandy, from three-day escapes to five-day adventures, and packed them full of expert advice and inspirational suggestions.
This is the Tour des Fromages Trip chapter from Lonely Planet’s Normandy & D-Day Beaches Road Trips guidebook.
On this gastronomic drive you’ll devour some of the best cheese in France and see where the seaside inspired artists, where Joan of Arc was executed and where Richard the Lionheart prowled.
- explore the best cheese museum in France, in Livarot
- pick the right route with inspirational images and key trip highlights
- savour fresh seafood at Honfleur’s harbourside restaurants
- get around easily with colour maps and route directions in easy stages
- learn the secrets of world-renowned Camembert at the Président Farm
- discover even more with detours and ways to link your trips
Coverage includes:Camembert, Vimoutiers, Livarot, Les Arpents du Soleil, Les Jardins du Pays d’Auge, Pont l’Évêque, Distillerie Christian Drouin, Honfleur, Neufchâtel-en-Bray, Les Andelys, Rouen.
Normandy & D-Day Beaches Road Trips - Survival Guide.
This chapter contains the Welcome to Normandy & D-Day Beaches, Normandy & D-Day Beaches Highlights, Paris City Guide, Lille City Guide, Need to Know, France Driving Guide, France Travel Guide and French Language chapters from Lonely Planet’s Normandy & D-Day Beaches Road Trips guidebook.
Start your planning here. We reveal the ultimate road-trip list for Normandy PLUS the highlights you’ll discover on the way and practical advice to kick-start your trip.
- road trip essentials: from hiring a car to road rules and playlists
- expert advice: discover even more with our city guides to Paris and Lille, plus practical need-to-know information
Coverage includes: Welcome to Normandy & D-Day Beaches, Normandy & D-Day Beaches Highlights, Paris City Guide, Lille City Guide, Need to Know, France Driving Guide, France Travel Guide, French Language.
This is the Monet’s Normandy Trip chapter from Lonely Planet’s Normandy & D-Day Beaches Road Trips guidebook.
This eclectic trip takes art lovers on a fascinating spin around eastern Normandy. En route you’ll hit the key landscapes and cities that inspired Monet, the father of impressionism.
- enjoy phenomenal views of the dramatic coastline at Étretat
- pick the right route with inspirational images and key trip highlights
- explore Giverny, the cradle of impressionism
- get around easily with colour maps and route directions in easy stages
- admire Rouen’s stunning cathedral and old town
- discover even more with background information and ways to link your trips
Coverage includes: Giverny, Rouen, Dieppe, St-Valery-en-Caux, Fécamp, Étretat, Côte d’Albâtre, Le Havre, Honfleur, Deauville, Trouville-sur-Mer.
This is the In Flanders Fields Trip chapter from Lonely Planet’s Normandy & D-Day Beaches Road Trips guidebook.
WWI history comes to life in this tour of the battlefields where Allied and German troops endured three years of trench warfare. Stopovers in Lille, Arras and Amiens offer an urban counterpoint.
- see a sobering maze of overgrown trenches, untouched since WWI, at Vimy Ridge
- pick the right route with inspirational images and key trip highlights
- commemorate the WWI dead of both sides on the Ring of Remembrance
- get around easily with colour maps and route directions in easy stages
- visit the region’s best museum of WWI history in Péronne
- discover even more with detours and ways to link your trips
Coverage includes:Lille, Fromelles, Ring of Remembrance, Vimy Ridge, Arras, Newfoundland Memorial, Thiepval, Amiens, Villers-Bretonneux, Péronne, Somme American Cemetery.
This is the D-Day’s Beaches Trip chapter from Lonely Planet’s Normandy & D-Day Beaches Road Trips guidebook.
Explore the events of D-Day, when Allied troops stormed ashore to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation. From war museums to landing beaches, it’s a fascinating and sobering experience.
- wander among shell craters that haven’t changed since D-Day at Pointe du Hoc
- pick the right route with inspirational images and key trip highlights
- pay your respects at the Normandy American Cemetery & Memorial at Omaha Beach
- get around easily with colour maps and route directions in easy stages
- visit an award-winning multimedia D-Day museum in Caen
- discover even more with detours and ways to link your trips
Coverage includes: Caen, Ouistreham, Juno & Gold Beaches, Arromanches, Longues-sur-Mer, Bayeux, Omaha Beach, Pointe du Hoc, Utah Beach.
Follow the course of the WWII invasion on Normandy’s beaches, explore the origins of impressionism, and fatten yourself up on Normandy’s cheeses, all with your trusted companion.Get to the heart of Normandy & D-Day Beaches and begin your journey now!
- Get inspired with highlights, expert recommendations and gorgeous images
- Discover even more with detours and ways to link your road trips
- Get around easily with colour maps, detailed directions and practical tips
- Plus planning advice to help you pick the right route
Coverage Includes: Plan Your Trip, D-Day’s Beaches Road Trip, Monet's Normandy Road Trip, Tour des Fromages Road Trip and In Flanders Fields Road Trip.
Writers: Damian Harper, Catherine Le Nevez
128 pages, 128pp color, 26 maps | Dimensions: 128mm × 197mm
Next edition due: Jun 2023

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