Introduction During my previous trips to Normandy, I had visited all of the D-Day beaches except Sword Beach, and I wanted to correct that oversight. Sword is the easternmost beach and probably the least explored. The US beaches of Omaha and Utah have plenty of visitors because of the US Marketing Machine, Gold Beach has the Mulberry Harbour and Juno Beach is the Canadian Landing zone. A ferry from the UK lands at Ouistreham, but most British Visitors usually head straight pa

Introduction This Easter, Rachel and I visited Italy, spending the week in the beach town of Rimini. Throughout our travels we have reached an exchange rate of competing interests, this trip we negotiated two days of battlefield touring in exchange for one tiny country. Rachel is on a quest to visit all the tiny countries of Europe, so most of our tours involve at least one tiny country. This trip included a visit to San Marino, a teeny mountain top town that is completely em