WWII England and France Eight-Day Adventure

Arrive in London Heathrow airport
Meet Grand Classroom representatives at baggage claim
Travel into London for a half day sightseeing tour. Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, St Paul’s Cathedral and Tower Bridge
Lunch
Explore the Imperial War Museum
Check into hotel
Dinner

Hotel breakfast
Enjoy a guided walking tour of Westminster area which will take you to Parliament Square, Whitehall, Downing Street and Buckingham Palace where you will observe the world famous Changing of the Guard
Lunch
Visit the Churchill War Rooms. Explore the secret underground headquarters that sheltered Churchill and his government during the Blitz. The tour will also include a visit to the Churchill Museum, where you will find out more about the life and legacy of “the Greatest Briton”
Free time in the afternoon
Dinner
Return to hotel

Hotel Breakfast
Check out of your hotel
Depart to Portsmouth to get the ferry to Caen
Packed lunch at Portsmouth Ferry Terminal
Board your ferry. Travel to Caen as a foot passenger
Dinner on board ferry
Late arrival in France, board your coach with your guide and transfer to your hotel
Check into hotel

Hotel brekafast
Board coach to Caen Memorial
Visit the Memorial de Caen, an award-winning museum dedicated to peace. Its interactive exhibitions commemorate the second World War and the battle for Caen
Picnic at the Memorial
Transfer to Arromanches by coach
Experience the Arromanches 360 Circular Cinema. A HD film projected on 9 surrond screens will tell you the story of the terrible Battle of Normandy through archive images from around the world
Visit the town of Arromanches, renowned for its artificial "Mulberry" harbour, known as "Port Winston"
Check into hotel
Dinner

Hotel breakfast
Depart with your guide for a visit of the D-Day landing beaches of Normandy
Arrive at the Normandy American Cemetery. The site is about 50 km away from Caen, covers over 170 acres and contains the graves of almost 10,000 soldiers
Take part in a wreath-laying ceremony
Time to walk through the cemetery and to the beach
Visit the Overlord Museum. Learn events of 1944, from the Normandy landing to the liberation of Paris
Lunch
Possible visits in the afternoon: - Bayeux War Cemetery, - Germany Military Cemetery at La Cambe, - Free time to discover a coastal town such as Cabourg, Deauville or Honfleur, or - Free time in Caen
Dinner
Return to hotel

Hotel breakfast
Check out and board coach to Paris
Travel to Paris
Lunch
Panoramic tour of Paris including: Napoleon's Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, Concorde, the Champs Elysées and the City Hall where Charles de Gaulle pronounced one of his most famous speech after Paris' liberation on the 25th August 1944
Visit the area around the Cathédrale de Notre-Dame. This Gothic masterpiece stands at the very heart of Paris on the site of a Roman temple. The stunning Ste Chapelle is located on the Ile de la Cité, as is the Conciergerie, where many prisoners of the Revolution were kept, including Marie-Antoinette. Cross the Pont St Louis to see the tiny Ile St Louis. Walk over the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris, to the Latin Quarter
Check into hotel
Dinner

Hotel breakfast
Board coach and depart for Versailles
Visit the great palace of Versailles, the centre of political power in France under Louis XIV
Lunch
Enjoy some free time in the area of the area of Montmartre, perched high on a hill north of the city centre
Farewell dinner
Return to hotel