If you don't know by now, I'm headed to Normandy next month to soak up the history, see new cities, try new foods, and do something scary (drive in Europe for the first time.) At this point in U.S. history, it's even more important to learn about D-Day and the fight for freedom. I'll be trying to get to as much of this list as possible, while also visiting Giverny & Monet's home, and taking a tour of Mont Saint-Michel and possibly Christian Dior's childhood home, turned museum:
I realize this is an old infographic, but it has all the important places on it for the region. While there, I'll also be looking for as much LGBTQ+ and Black history, because a lot of that has been lost or is never taught to us when we learn about wars from our perspective (that whole American Exceptionalism, which isn't true history).
I can't wait to learn more about France, pay my respects to those who died fighting for freedom, and just generally taking in the countryside and beaches before I spend 3 days in Disneyland, eating garbage food and seeing if I learned enough French to not read subtitles.
If you've been to Normandy, or anywhere between there and Paris, give me some suggestions on what I should do, where I should stop, and what I should eat!
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