Thank you Marion! Please make time for this trip. We did it by RV and paid probably $20 more per day than it would have cost to rent a car and get rooms, but we had the flexibility and freedom to go where we wanted to. Campgrounds are in every town in France, and the signs that point them out are attached to the same signs that point you in the direction to the next town. So, it's so easy to find a place to stay. We got a book that showed the locations of campgrounds and we needed that for Germany, as they are not that big into camping as the French. We learned a little German and French before we went and it helped us get a lot of respect from the locals.
I always thought that I'd never make it to Europe. My Girlfriend and I were invited to a friend's wedding in Strasbourg, France. We made the trip after she told me "I just want to go to the wedding and see one particular sight, but if you want to see anything else, go for it!" So, I took all those years of learning and put them to use. That poor girl was drug all over Europe to see many WWII related sights but it was enjoyable for both of us to experience together. I programmed the GPS with the places I wanted to go, and everything fell into place. It was shocking how pulling up to a site, I remembered it from black and white photos, and it all fell into place.
I had a unique surprise, some German writing was on the wall at one emplacement on the Normandy Beach. And in another, I remember the GPS having me turn onto Grossestrasse in Nuremberg. That's the VERY wide road built by the Germans that runs the length of their party grounds. I didn't know that my campground was actually on the site. When I made the turn, my jaw hit the floor. I remembered how wide it was from pictures, how the road was built from individual blocks, etc. I could barely get out the words that I knew this place. After parking, we walked to the different places on the grounds from memory.
Here are the pictures I took and some videos as well. I have a lot of work to do. I never finished putting captions on all the photos I took, and I never finished editing the videos I took there. Life got in the way, ha! But, I want to make this happen as I have a lot of it that I want to make available.