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Basse Normandie : <div style="font-size: 90%"><span style="color: #7D0025">Some of the wonderful places we have visited during our stays in <b>Basse Normandie</b>.</span>  <a style="color:#009AA3" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&om=0&msa=0&msid=106208759149718043635.0004396ded5e39992add1&ll=49.00168,-1.461074&spn=1.391042,3.092651&z=8" target="blank"><i>See Map</i></a>

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Updated: Jun 04, 2009 3:59pm PST

Avranches : <div style="font-size: 90%"><span style="color:#7D0025"><b>Avranches</b> - my birth town.   <a style="color:#009AA3" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&om=0&msa=0&msid=106208759149718043635.000439596f11d43643086&ll=48.683763,-1.360684&spn=0.010937,0.024161&z=15" target="blank"><i>See Map</i></a>

We moved away when I was just a baby.  As the son of a GI, I grew up in many places -- in the States, and abroad -- but Avranches has alway felt like home to me.</span>
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Avranches - my birth town. See Map We moved away when I was just ...

Updated: Jun 04, 2009 3:20pm PST

Les Mares : <div style="font-size: 90%"><span style="color:#7D0025"><b>Les Mares</b>, a rolling bucolic country estate/farm within easy walking distance of downtown Avranches.  <a style="color:#009AA3" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&om=0&msa=0&msid=106208759149718043635.000439596f11d43643086&ll=48.683763,-1.360684&spn=0.010937,0.024161&z=15" target="blank"><i>See Map</i></a>

I was born in the stable here -- don't remember getting any visit from three wise guys though...</span>

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Les Mares

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Les Mares, a rolling bucolic country estate/farm within easy walking d ...

Updated: Jun 04, 2009 3:17pm PST

Le Jardin des Plantes : <div style="font-size: 90%"><span style="color:#7D0025"><b>Le Jardin des Plantes</b> - Botanical Garden

Avranches <a style="color:#009AA3" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&om=0&msa=0&msid=106208759149718043635.000439596f11d43643086&ll=48.683763,-1.360684&spn=0.010937,0.024161&z=15" target="blank"><i>See Map</i></a> was oftentimes known as "la cité des fleurs et des panoramas," in large part a tribute to this magical place.</span>

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Le Jardin des Plantes

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Le Jardin des Plantes - Botanical Garden Avranches See Map was ofte ...

Updated: Jun 04, 2009 3:13pm PST

Le Val-Saint-Père : <div style="font-size: 90%"><span style="color:#7D0025"><b>Le Val-Saint-Père</b> <a style="color:#009AA3" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&om=0&msa=0&msid=106208759149718043635.00043996098fb5013a7ef&ll=48.65662,-1.383263&spn=0.021885,0.048323&z=14" target="blank"><i>See Map</i></a> - Whenever we visit Ma Normandie, we stay at a bed-and-breakfast here on the lowlands of the Baie du Mont-Saint-Michel on the outskirts of Avranches.  

These photos were taken on some of our many delightful walks along the estuary trail and the country roads of Le Val-Saint-Père.</span>

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Le Val-Saint-Père

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Updated: Jun 04, 2009 3:01pm PST

Normandy American Cemetery : <div style="font-size: 90%"><span style="color:#7D0025"><b>Normandy American Cemetery</b> <a style="color:#009AA3" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&om=0&msa=0&msid=106208759149718043635.000439ab9adf5aad1f64c&ll=48.958089,-0.991945&spn=1.39225,3.092651&z=8" target="blank"><i>See Map</i></a> - as seen in <i>Saving Private Ryan</i> - this, the largest American Cemetery in France, contains 9,387 graves, and walls inscribed with 1,557 names of the missing.</span>

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Normandy American Cemetery

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Normandy American Cemetery See Map - as seen in Saving Private Ryan - ...

Updated: Jun 01, 2009 8:51pm PST

Omaha Beach : <div style="font-size: 90%"><span style="color:#7D0025"><b>Omaha Beach</b> <a style="color:#009AA3" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&om=0&msa=0&msid=106208759149718043635.000439ab9adf5aad1f64c&ll=48.958089,-0.991945&spn=1.39225,3.092651&z=8" target="blank"><i>See Map</i></a> - where the tide ran red with blood - My father landed here on June 7th, 1944, the day after D-Day.</span>

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Omaha Beach

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Omaha Beach See Map - where the tide ran red with blood - My father la ...

Updated: May 26, 2009 1:54pm PST

Normandie 2009 : <div style="color: #c5fffe; text-align:center;"><b><i>in memory of Raymond J. Provencher
March 21, 1925 - July 30, 2008</i>

Our trip to Normandy to spread Dad's ashes in the Bay of the Mont-Saint-Michel and spend some time remembering him in the land where he first met Maman so many years ago.

Now they are reunited.  Bon Voyage!</b></div>

Normandie 2009

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in memory of Raymond J. Provencher March 21, 1925 - July 30, 2008 ...

Updated: May 16, 2009 3:21pm PST

Unsung Hero : <div><span style="color:#7D0025"><center><b>Unsung Hero</b>
<span style="font-size: 80%"><i>SFC  Raymond  J.  Provencher -  March 21, 1925 - July 30, 2008</i></span></center>

My father fought in WWII, having landed on Omaha Beach and fought his way through Normandy, to Belgium, where he was captured.  He spent the last eight months of the war as a POW in a stalag on the Polish border.

After the war he was stationed again in Normandy, at Brittany American Cemetery, where he served as Honor Guard.

He rarely spoke of his war experiences, but little by little, through my mother and other acquaintances, we learned what a <a style="color:#009AA3" href="http://manormandie.googlepages.com/unsunghero" target="blank">hero</a> he was.  Our most recent such revelation came at Brittany Cemetery on Memorial Day, 2004.</span>

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Unsung Hero

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Unsung Hero SFC Raymond J. Provencher - March 21, 1925 - July 30, ...

Updated: Aug 31, 2007 8:44pm PST

WWII Memorials : <div style="font-size: 90%"><span style="color:#7D0025"><b>WWII Memorials</b> <a style="color:#009AA3" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&om=0&msa=0&msid=106208759149718043635.000439ab9adf5aad1f64c&ll=48.958089,-0.991945&spn=1.39225,3.092651&z=8" target="blank"><i>See Map</i></a> - The people of Normandie remember and honour well the sacrifices made by allied soldiers on their behalf.</span>

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WWII Memorials

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Updated: Aug 31, 2007 5:46pm PST

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