16 Aug 2014 Ah Bonjour! Yesterday left Holland for a journey to Normandy in France. Before leaving I had contacted Lien, a girl I wrote about 12 months ago when I found her with her leg bandaged up in the hostel in Hanoi where I was staying. Lien had been in a scooter accident and had severe lacerations on her leg including an infected open wound on her foot. The day I met her I had been inside a Vietnamese hospital and had quickly come to the conclusion tha...

Day 116 12 Aug 2013 A famous bridge When travelling east you come past another point of interest further west was the bridge over the canal north of Caen. This bridge was featured in the movie “The Longest Day” which had been filmed “on location”. In the early nineties the bridge was replaced and the original bridge placed in a park 50 yards away making it a memorial to the men who died on the bridge. A heroic feat was carried out by ...