Greece to Normandy Convoy '09

[Sydneymver]

Thanks Lang,

Well i have my booking confirmed at the Ibis Bayeux Port En Bessin , my wife is a bit more exited about that than the Camping ground in Carentan i had previously arranged and will now cancel).
The village does look great and we are 5k from the Memorial museum, and we are right on Omaha Beach.
We will definately catch up with you guys over there for sure.
Thanks for your help Lang.

Bruce McCann

[Lang]

Bruce,

Here are some photos Bev took out of the Beech 18 I was flying in France last month. The weather was absolute crap and I was possibly below legal height but we got the view. Port-en-Bessin, the artificial harbour at Aramanches, Omaha Beach Memorial, USA War Cemetary Omaha and Mont St Michel (on our convoy schedule).

Lang

[Lang]

Mont St Michel and the Beech I was flying.

[Sydneymver]

Much appreciated for that Lang, the place looks impressive and looking forward to attending.
The vintage craft looks good too, I will show that to my sister as she flys jets out of Luton airport.

Bruce McCann

[Sydneymver]

Today 15/11/08 and this weekend Qantas is offering a buy one get one free for your tickets.
My too and from flights have been in the last hour booked $1815 not bad i rekon.
Well it has been a busy day, but a good one regarding the holiday.

So if you haven't booked your tickets now is as good a time as ever.

Bruce McCann

[Lang]

Here is jim Sewell's C15A Radio Van sitting on its rims ready to go in a container from Perth to Istanbul. If you look back up this thread a couple of months back you should agree he has made wonderful progress.

[Lang]

Here is our completely revised route. If any Europeans are near our track, please come and have a beer.

Lang

[zemsi]

... great, you can count me in

I guess the new route is much more spectacular than the old one. Do you have some time to make a lake cruise with a 100 year old big paddle steamer on Lake Lucerne?

[Lang]

Chris,

We well may have time to do that. I will see how the troops are going when we near Northern Italy. Looking forward to meeting you.

Lang

[Lang]

Just to keep everyone up to date. We now have our shipping dates.

The Kiwis have to get off the mark in about 3 weeks so their box can go to Melbourne to be transferred to the same ship everyone else is using. The Brisbane mob have their two boxes going down the coast mid February to do the same.

Jim Sewell with his Chevrolet radio van is heading off from the west coast on his own personal ship, hopefully to join our bunch of containers in Malta to be put on yet another ship for Istanbul.

I think we should have painted all the vehicles in Navy colours.

Lang