Musee des Blindes…
Roy told be about a museum located there that had the largest collection of armored artillery vehicles in the world from WWII. We both definitely wanted to see that so we located the museum and bought tickets. I think we spent several hours there as there were armored tanks and vehicles everywhere. Represented there were the American, German, French, Russian and all other allied force vehicles. It was very informative.
The first picture is a map of the landing beaches found in Normandy for US and allied forces.
A German Panzer...
A row of allied tanks...
A Russian tank...
A Duck...
A Land-Mine Destroyer...
Battle Damage...
A Crazy Idea...
First engines used in Sherman Tanks (Aircraft engine)...
My first bike at age 15, like this one, a Triumph Tiger Cub outfitted for war - bought from Judy Fish's family.
Saumer itself, is a beautiful small town situated directly on the Loire River. Though only there for a short time we both thought that it merited further exploration on future visits. In fact, Roy took his wife in the car to Saumer about a week after we returned for a longer visit.
In Saumer, we were close to Durtal which was a camp site stop we did on our last trip. As the roads from Durtal back to Normandy were some of the best D-roads we had traveled we decided to head toward Durtal and take that same route back to Montbray. I could have gone back to Paris from there but that would have been twice the distance if I compared the distance to Ray’s house so I asked if he minded me traveling with him back to Normandy to spend the night and do a fresh start to Paris the next day. Ray graciously agreed.
All in all this was a 5 day trip and we had a lot of fun on the road. The ETAP hotel worked out perfectly and proved that it did indeed provide for a low cost alternative to camping. The best benefit being that we traveled with far less stuff packed on the bikes.
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