After a very busy Friday morning at work we saddled up the Africa Twins an headed towards France. As it is one week before Easter the roads were full of people rushing off for a holiday and it took us a while to get to Burgundry where we made a stop for the night.

On a perfect spring morning we continued our journey across France and in the afternoon reached Normandy’s Omaha beach and the neighbouring D-Day sites from WW2 where we made a short final stop before embarking the Irish Ferries ‚Oscar Wilde‘. As there was the opportunity we chose a five star suite – what a difference to our usual travels taking deck passage in sleeping bags but honestly after the 1200km ride on one and a half days we deserved it.