Day 1 : Friday
Arrival at Paris Roissy Airport Meeting with our English speaking guide / interpreter Coach service Transfer to your hotel Check in Time to unpack and freshen up Free time to explore the surroundings of the hotel Lunch and dinner free at your own charge Night in Paris.
Day 2 : Saturday
Guided visit (3 hours) of Paris followed by a Seine Cruise
Lunch in Montmartre Afternoon free for shopping and a personnal discovery of the French capital Dinner free at your own charge Night in Paris
Day 3 : Sunday
Route to Normandy
Visit of Saint Hippolyte dairy farm
100 norman dairy cows
Home made cheese : Pont l’Evêque and Livarot
120 hectares : pasture and cereals Lunch on the farm
City sightseeing of Lisieux Lisieux has become the most important commercial and industrial town in the prosperous Auge region. The town's renown centres today on the Lisieux of St Teresa. Visit of Honfleur : Honfleur on the Seine Esturary at the foot of the Côte de Grâce hill, is a delightful town. Its old dock, its church and old streets combine in singular harmony.
Visit of a Calvados distillery
Calvados tasting Route to Caen via Deauville Dinner free at your own charge Night in Caen
Day 4 : Monday
Short city sightseeing of Caen
Visit of a dairy farm
40 cows of Holstein and Norman herd in which 50% of the milk is processed into butter, cream and “milk jam”
Visit of a dairy goats farm with home made cheese
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Visit of Graindorge fromagerie
From the viewing gallery you could see the process of Livarot and Pont l’Evêque cheeses
Livarot and Pont l’Evêque tasting
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Visit of a dairy farm (Norman cows) with home made cheese : Camembert Lunch
Visit of Le PIN stud farm, a stud known as “Versailles for horses”
Visit of a mixed farm : Charolais suckler cows and apple trees for cider and Calvados
Cider and calvados tasting Back to Caen Dinner free at your own charge Night in Caen
Day 5 : Tuesday
Tour of the D Day Beaches Visit of Hoc Point, the place where 225 american rangers climbed the cliffs to reduce a german battery particulary dangerous to troops landing on Omaha beach . After the victorious assault 135 of them where either killed or wounded Visit of La Cambe German War Cemetery, the place where 21 500 German soldiers who fell in the 1944 battles are buried Visit of Omaha Beach Visit of Colleville American Military Cemetery where 9385 carrara marble crosses stand aligned in an impressive site Visit to the Allied Landing museum in Arromanches : a unique collection of documents has been gathered there, focusing on every detail of this unforgettable achievement : port models, luminous and sound slide show. Allied forces stand, film projection, three-dimension models, photographs enlargements, weapons, books, autographs...
Lunch
Visit of a duck breeding farm with a chance to taste foie gras To Le Mont Saint Michel Dinner and night in Le Mont Saint Michel
Day 6 : Wednesday
Visit of Le Mont Saint Michel : a solitary island standing in the middle of a desert, that "Wonder of the Western World" leaves an indelible memory on every visitor, so indiviual is its setting, so rich its history and so perfect its architecture.
Visit of an oyster farm in Cancale including an oyster tasting : 6 oysters with bread and a glass of muscadet To Saint Malo Lunch in a “crêperie”
Guided visit of Saint Malo
Once a fortified island, Saint-MALO stands in a commanding position at the mouth of the river Rance. Intra-muros, the old walled city, is encircled by ramparts that provide fine views of Saint-MALO and its offshore islands. The Castle of Saint-MALO, dates from the 14th-15th-centuries. The Fort National, was constructed in 1689 by Louis XIV’s famous military architect, Vauban. The three-towered Tour Solidor in Saint-Servan was built in 1332 : formerly it was a prison
Free time to explore the Old “intra-muros” town Dinner free at your own charge Night in Saint MALO
