What's up at home today...?

Reading a bit the regional news, i fall on this. This took place last month, in April 2015.


Elements of the Mulberry harbour of Arromanches are back home as a memorial. Look for the video at the end of the article.


This is about two parts of Whale floating roads which were used in 1944 for the Mulberry B harbour of Arromanches, off Gold Beach, during Operation Overlord. Another Mulberry, the Mulberry A, on American sector, was built at Omaha Beach.





After the war, and as many other in the country, these elements were recycled for helping of the rebuilding of the country. These two parts here were used for building a bridge over the Meuse river in the city of Revin, in the Ardennes, for replacing the Saint-Nicolas bridge which was destroyed during the war. This should be a temporary solution but the temporary solution has remained until 2014, when a new bridge was built.






The Whale elements should be scrapped but, in Arromanches, the local association Port-Winston, presided by Mr. Gérard Lecornu, made lot of approaches to regional and national authorities, for keeping them as a memorial in Arromanches, on the spot where they helped in 1944.

So, the job was done last month. They stand now right on the spot of the monument dedicated to the British Royal Engineers. Well done.

First sub-tropical summer day in The Netherlands.
I am near to the coast, in some eastern parts it was 33 Celsius.
We will have some thunderstorms later this evening.

Happy frog it seems ...

Nikita wrote: Happy frog it seems ...

Yeah, must be a French frog finally enjoying the weather

D-Day experience is working



Some times ago, the local press related the creation of something really special…




Credits : Philippe Cherel/Ouest-France


The Dead Man’s Corner Museum of Saint Côme du Mont, in Normandy, created a D-Day airborne simulator by adding virtual 3D and automatised mechanic stuff on a real WW2 C-47 Dakota. This plane is the one used by Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. This project needed years of working for several French companies and its cost is 3 millions of Euros, invested by the founders of the museum, Mr. Michel De Trez and Mr. Emmanuel Allain.

The public opening was some days ago, on June 4 and it seems a success. Even actors from Band of Brothers were there.



Among others, two local companies worked on this project, they are CL Corporation, based in Bruz, not far from Rennes, and specialised in mechanics and industrial automatisms and Polymorph software, based in Montgermont, also near Rennes, and who is a graphic studio specialized in graphic contents for entertainment and museology.







Links :


Slideshow report on Polymorph website for C-47 inauguration

Slideshow report on Polymorph website for public opening.

About D-Day experience, portfolio and nice pictures on Polymorph website

CL Corporation website ( in English )

Polymorph website( in English )

Dead Man's Corner Museum website , and this one is in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian and Dutch.


Note : About this historical house, if i remember well there's a mission of CoD2 were we've to deal with it ...

We had hot days too here, Jo. Last week 34-35°C (in the shade obviously), but yesterday and today it's cloudy and it's not so hot (just 28-29°C).
Next days will be warmer. May was pretty hot...and even if I live just 60 km from the sea I have never been at the beach yet, this year