Travel Review: Luxury European Family Vacation, London, Normandy, Bruges, Belgium, Paris Electric Bike Tour, D-Day Beaches

Every American that goes to France should visit Normandy, the D-day beaches (with a guide), and the cemeteries.  It is a history lesson that you cannot learn in a classroom.  It is an emotional experience to be sure, not just because it brings a tear to your eye at times but because you feel patriotic, you feel a sense of gratitude for our forefathers and the allied forces.  You even feel that the French people of Normandy honor and appreciate what was sacrificed as part of their history and where they are today.  On top of all if this, Normandy is just a great place.  Mont St. Michel is iconic.  If you go, you have to stay in Bayeux.  I would have probably stayed in Caen without the recommendation from our Agent.  Her recommendation on that alone proved her value.

The electric bike tour in Paris is a must.  I never would have thought about it but now I will recommend it to anyone I know that is going there as long as the use the same tour guides.  They had unique proprietary stories and took us to places I never knew about or found in a travel book. The other guides do not have the stories and seems like they only went to the places that everyone knows about on a travel map.

Bruges, Belgium AKA Brugge may not be on everyone's bucket list of places to visit and I almost skipped it because I wasn't sure it was worth the extra train trip and Hotel change but I am really glad we went, even of it was only for a couple days.  I heard it referred to as a real life fairy-tale medieval town.  It is so picturesque it is surreal.  Look it up.  Pictures will not do it justice.