Day 113 11 Aug 2013 Oh My Lord? Ahem ..I meant Overlord. Operation "Overlord" was the code name for the invasion of Normandy which everyone knows as D-Day which took place on June 6 1944. The landings took place on the North coast of Normandy. The well known landing beaches are north to north west of the city of Caen. The parachutists drop zones where further west and more inland. As mentioned before it is holiday time and it is busy everywhere so places we...

Day 113 10 Aug 2013 Caen-Normandy Going to bed at 2 Am and waking at 6.15 Am I have done before but it is getting harder. With pain I managed to get up this morning. 45 minutes… and we were on our way. A few hours later we passed the first cemeteries of the Flanders fields where, amongst the millions of others, many Australians have lost their lives in the first world war. Perhaps on the way back we can give it some more time. France came in sight. D...

Day 112 9 Aug 2013 Brielle I am staying in Brielle with one of my best friends Ab Touw and his wife Ineke . Ab is another friend for life and I could write 3 pages about him and me but I won't at this stage . Perhaps I come back on this later as this deserves a separate chapter. You will meet him soon as tomorrow we leave for France and spent 6 days travelling Belgium and Northern France (Normandy) together, mainly to visit another one of my friends Jerome who...

Day 111 7 Aug 2013 Haarlem “Hello” I said when I walked into a bar in the centre of Haarlem. Beside the girl bartender there was no one there. I ordered a beer and looked around. Nothing had changed by the looks of it. The last time I had been there was around 10 years ago. I took a photograph of the picture hanging on the back wall above the entrance to the toilet, showing three man side by side. Do you any family in Holland?, is a question I get...