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Hello subscribers!
There are a number of new ones on here – so let me say welcome, and I hope you'll enjoy the content!
Since the last newsletter, another new post has gone up on the BLOG, yesterday, to be precise, on the anniversary of the D-Day landings in WWII, which this year could not be commemorated with the same sort of ceremonies featuring the last few veterans still alive. Owing to the coronavirus pandemic this year’s ceremonies were drastically scaled down, and none of the elderly veterans still alive were in attendance, of course (they’re obviously considered within the 'risk group'). But apparently there were video streamings of the events. Sign of our times – everything is shoved online ;-)
The photo above shows the remnants of the ‘Mulberry harbour’, a kind of stand-in floating harbour that the Allies set up shortly after the initial landings on 6 June 1944. By means of this further supplies and reinforcements were brought on land. This is at Arromanches in Normandy, France.
I saw these remnants as part of a D-Day beaches tour organized by the Mémorial de Caen, which are a very convenient way of seeing some key sites along this Normandy coast if you don’t have your own vehicle. Also part of the tour were Omaha Beach, the American war cemetery, various memorials, as well as parts of the ruins of the Atlantic Wall.
Apart from these new things, I’ve meanwhile also been able to finish the reconstruction of the posts for 2019 that used to be on my purged ex-Facebook page. It’s obviously not interactive and lacks the likes, comments and shares of the original, but at least you can get an impression of the chronology and see (almost) all the original content and most photos I had posted during that year. It’s a bit like time-travel backwards, especially of course if you had been a follower of that page during that year.
I’m planning to keep the newsletter postings to one a week for now, but will also gradually fill up the Blog with more content. It’s early days, so it’ll take time before it’ll be comprehensive, but it’ll keep growing in that direction. And of course, for anybody looking for specific information about anything dark-tourism related there’s always my more encyclopedic main website that I’ve been running since 2009.
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