D-Day + 64 years
Phew, this is the big one. The 149-mile route below will take in most of the D-Day venues (apart from Pegasus Bridge), but doesn't allow much time to stop at any of them. We'll have to play it by ear on the day. Have a look at this official site beforehand and make a note of anything you'd particularly like to stop at.
Leave Cormolain on the D31, heading east.
After La Chapelle, turn left onto the D99, signposted Bayeux.
Follow the D99 through Ste Honorine-du-Ducy (site of an American airfield from July 1944) and St Paul-du-Vernay until you join the D572, the main road to Bayeux.
Follow this over the new bypass to the roundabout on the Bayeux ring road, where you turn left.
The ring road will take you past the D-Day museum on your right and then the major war cemetery on your left (it's the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in France).
Keep on the ring road until the suburb of St Vigor, where you turn left onto the D12.
Follow the D12 to Douvres-la-Déliverande and then Hermanville-sur-Mer where you take the D60 to Lion-sur-Mer.
From here we'll take the D514 and follow it right along the coast, through St Aubin-sur-Mer, Coursuelles-sur-Mer, Arromanches-les-Bains, Longues-sur-Mer (and the German battery) to Port-en-Bessin and on to Omaha Beach, Vierville-sur-Mer, St-Pierre-du-Mont and the Pointe du Hoc and as far as Grandcamp-Maisy where the D514 turns inland to the N13.
We'll turn right on the N13 and follow it until the exit onto the D913 which takes us through Ste-Marie-du-Mont and on the D421 to Utah Beach.
The D421 takes us to Ravenoville-Plage and then Ravenoville where we'll pick up the D15 towards Ste-Mère-Eglise.
Then it's back onto the N13 to Issigny-sur-Mer, where we'll turn off, turn right on the roundabout onto the D5.
We'll follow the D5 to Le Molay-Littry.
In the centre of Le Molay-Littry, go straight over the roundabout, past the red telephone box and follow the long, straight, D10 to the large roundabout.
Go straight over onto the D13 into Balleroy where we'll turn right onto the D28.
Soon after Balleroy turn left onto the D116, signposted Cormolain.
Then it's through Planquery and into Cormolain and home.
If you have a TomTom. (right-click, then click on "save as" and save it to your TomTom.)
During the day, veterans and their modern counterparts will be laying wreaths at a number of places.
