Boys on Tour 2023 – France

Day one (Thursday May 11^th May)

Travel to Folkestone Euro tunnel – 2hours 40 mins Depart 3:00 am (check in before 6:50am) for 7:50am train

Travel to Calais then to Dunkirk – 30 mins

Dunkirk Museum
 Entry €8.00

Then on to Air B&B nr Albert (Somme) for 2 nights – 2 hours

36 Rue Georges Cuvillier Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Hauts-de-France, France

Check in 5pm Check Out 11am

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Day two and three (Friday 12^th and Saturday 13^th May)

Suggestions of places to visit:

Friday:

Sheffield Memorial Park

Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial

Hawthorn Ridge Crater

The Thiepval Museum and monument
Entry €6.00

Le Tommy Cafe du Souvenir Pozieres
Entry €5.00 (I think I read)

Optional: Avril Williams Guest House at Auchonvilliers

(Have a small museum and an actual trench restoration)

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Saturday

Lochnagar Crater

Somme Museum Albert
Entry €7.50

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Travel to Arromanche (D-Day) – 3 hours 30 min

Then on to Air B&B for 3 nights Check in 6pm Check Out 12 noon

2 Rue des Stins Ver-sur-Mer, Normandie, France

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Day four (Sunday 14^th May)

Can swap days one and two

Visit D-Day memorial and museum
Entry €12.70

Battle of Normandy museum Bayeux
Entry €7.50

Sword and Gold Beaches

 

Day five (Monday 15^th May)

Choices of:

The Pointe de Hoc

Omaha beach museum
Entry €8.90

Overlord museum
Entry €9.50

Utah beach museum
Entry €8.00

Airbourne museum Sainte-Mère-Eglise
Entry €9.00

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 Day six (Tuesday 16^th May)

Cambes-en-Plaine War Cemetery

Pegasus Bridge Museum
Entry €8.90

Travel to Calais 4hrs (stop along route perhaps Abbeville)

Travel to Calais Euro tunnel (Check in before 4.20 pm) for 5:20pm train.

Travel to home (approx. 8-9pm)

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