Mr Boardman's thoughts.....

First of all many apologies for those of you who have been trying to log on to the blog I set up for the trip. Unfortunately problems only came to light when some of the parents tried to access it this week.
Secondly well done for getting to this blog! My intension is to let the students post here over the next few days as well as posting some photographs. I will also continue to post to the twitter page. Our name is Thehallnormandy.
Yesterday (Monday) started with a visit to Arromanches Museum for the Landing of Allied Forces. We were given an excellent talk on the creation of the Mulberry B Artificial Harbour. I know that the boys found the discussion of the engineering involved very interesting. We then visited Longes Sur Mere which was the position for the German Gun placements. Again I felt that the boys saw History come alive.
After lunch we arrived at The American Cemetery at Omaha where 10 000 fallen American Soldiers are buried. This was a moving and important experience for all of us.
Tuesday has been a real great day, less busy but no less interesting. First off we visited The Pegasus Museum which commemorates the crucial Allied taking of The Pegasus Bridge over the Orne. The presentation there was excellent, with detail of the glider landings (amazingly the British Troops managed to land within 45 yards of the bridge without being detected). We then had a drink at the cafe on the bridge which is still owned by the family who owned it at D-Day.