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A journey to France
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| Despite my impression caused by former travels to Paris, that French and German people still have some problems meeting each other, that may have occurred by the dramatic scenery in World War II, I really been positively surprised travelling to the West Coast of France this year, learning the convenient way of the people over there, welcoming and helping us, whenever needed. This travel totally changed my mind therefore I would like to thank all the people we met over there, that helped us in any way, even at the moments, as our knowledge of the French language completely faded away. |
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Turning back to this short travel report:
The house we lived in is located in the area of Charente Maritime in small village of Dirée, that's between the cities of La Rochelle and Bordeaux. So, naturally we visited La Rochelle, which is really nice to see and of course you can get the typical and delicious sea food in these nice harbour restaurants. Besides we seen the famous Unterseeboot Bunker of the German Navy, built in WWII - these are tremendous buildings. |
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| Another trip led us to Saumur, cause we had been informed to find the largest tank museum all over the world. They got approximately 500 vehicles, 250 of them in drivable condition, quite impressive. For sure I intended to see the one and only King Tiger in fully workable condition over there - what an awesome and devastating vehicle. In the scrapyard of the museum I found a Panther G, unfortunately partly covered by a canvas, but I am sure that this is the vehicle shown in one photo of Tamiya's installation manual of the Panther A model in 1:35 scale of the early 70's. But find out by yourself, and take a look at the pictures. |
    
    
    
    
 
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| Of course we been to the beaches to swim and have some fun, and guess what, yeah, wherever you go, you'll find the remnants of WWII, especially bunkers. On one beach amidst the woody dunes we found the typical Atlantic Bunkers. We counted min. 6 Bunkers prepared for heavy Artillery gun and one observation/command post bunker. All these buildings were in more or less original condition. Another beach was full of concrete parts of some bunkers. Wind, sand and the stormy atlantic ocean of course, did their job to destroy these buildings, or covered them with sand in total. |
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That's it for now - hope you enjoy the photos and this little travel story.
Cheers
Uwe
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