Normandy, France

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O.K. so I'm biased. I've lived in Normandy, sold property there, studied Norman history, customs and lifestyle, heard the wartime tales, put my kids through school and studied French there. Indeed this site was born to publicise my book 'A Normandy Tapestry' (and of course, a prerequisite of a good trip is to take A Normandy Tapestry as your holiday read. Hem hem!).

Norman tourist sites

Official Norman tourist board site

Excellent French tourist board site.

Normandy regional information

A good general description of the Department.

www.normandywebguide.com.

Normandy Sightseeing Tours (private tours of Normandy)

History

Normandy was invaded by the Vikings in the tenth century - the name deriving from 'North man', which is rather more Anglo-Saxon than French. They stole not only the land, but the language too: which was to have enormous influence on English. From way before that, until the storming ashore of the American, Canadian and British armies on the Norman beaches on June 6th 1944, the French Department has played a key role in French, British, European, American and world history.

William the Conqueror.

An English schools' history site. Information about perhaps the nastiest Norman of the lot, William the Conqueror:

D-Day

http://normandy.eb.com; The Encyclopedia Britannica entry for the Norman landings of 1944. Superb.
D-day battlefield tours. In-depth private D-Day Tours directed in English by a professional guide from the UK or within France, planned to meet your requirements, to the D-Day Landing Beaches: D-Day beaches and other WWII battlefields; Dedicated to the battlefields of World War two; http://www.battlebus.fr; Norman battlefield tours.; http://www.normandywebguide.com; D-Day tours: daily visits to the American and British landing beaches; Norman battlefield tours; It does what it says on the label!.

If you want to get the true taste of the place, you can spend fourteen nights there without leaving your armchair, snuggled up with "A Normandy Tapestry". Or alternatively, you can save the book until you get there. Forget television for a while: this is the perfect replacement therapy! Find out more about A Normandy Tapestry, and its sequel, Selling French Dreams in our books

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