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Go to TripAdvisor.com and check out their reviews of various companies, tours, guides, museums, etc. The details there aren’t always up-to-date, and they’re often biased unfairly in a negative direction, but I think this website is about the best source of such info — at least if you can take the time to read with a critical eye.

Anyway, for me, a guided tour of several days thru an entire area is usually best, because I can carry on a extended dialogue about local history and geography with the tour director while we’re on the bus, at restaurants and elsewhere. I learn a lot that way. That was certainly my experience when touring Normandy.

Moreover, the typical guides and tour directors for just about any tour company will know which times are best to visit certain sites, so as to avoid crowds and early closing times. And they will know which sites are worth skipping, especially some of the tourist traps. Also, other tourists in your group often will have in-depth knowledge of particular topics that can be valuable.

My wife and I have used three tour companies recently in Europe: Grand European Tours, Road Scholar and Grand Circle Tours. All were very good, with excellent tour directors. And I’ve heard good things from friends about several of the other big USA and British tour companies.

But the guided tour is not for everybody. Maybe you will enjoy the sites more if you simply hire a local guide at certain sites, then travel on your own from place to place. That approach is usually not my cup of tea, but then I wouldn’t want to judge your personal preferences on the matter.

Further removed from my preferences, some people I know evidently get a certain “satisfaction” from figuring out EVERYTHING by themselves when they travel overseas. No guides anywhere, period. I think they’re seriously short-sighted in this regard — but to each his own.

If they have to learn to live with Mooslim terrorism, do they have to learn to live with anti-Mooslim terrorism too?

Or is it a one-way street?

“How to GROW the police state, 101’

I have visited most of the battlefield in France and Belgium WWI and WWII. If you are well versed in the history of these wars, I would strongly suggest you lay out a plan and follow your own instincts as to how long, where, etc. Drive yourself and govern your time spent where you are most interested.Tell me how long you have and i can give you an idea of what you can cover.

That’s where I quit reading.

And we wish him well with all of that! Every pot has a lid, as grandma used to say!

I hope you're not moving them by boat. As a charter member of the FR canoe club, I have a lot of personal experience in that area. I can tell you that your odds of making without capsizing are slim to none.

A psychopath is a person who has no empathy, and feels no remorse or even secretly enjoys inflicting suffering on others. The psychopath is incapable of caring about other people and only uses others for his/her own benefit or pleasure.
The psychopath is not insane; s/he knows the difference between right and wrong and simply does not care.
Describes Hillary and Obama.

A psychotic, OTOH, is detached from reality and delusional; cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality, therefore cannot distinguish between right or wrong.
Describes LGBTs, Transgenders.

So what we have here is a cabal of psychopaths, stacking our military and various government agencies with psychotics.

To be a psychopath takes intelligence. To be an idiot............well, this is self explanatory with her.

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Labyrinth of a psychopath...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWrbxJdwgq4

If your coworker claims to have passed out due to heat, when it’s only 79 degrees, she’s a psychopath.

If your coworker gets caught in that lie and then claims to have passed out due to pneumonia, but never mentioned that diagnosis to coworkers who had been exposed and continued to be exposed, she’s a psychopath.

If your coworker gets caught in that lie too and then claims to have passed out due to being a woman, which means “pushing through” every illness, she’s a psychopath.

If your coworker gets caught in that lie too and then claims that FDR did it too, even though FDR’s mind worked at all times so FDR did nothing of the sort, she’s a psychopath.

If your coworker avoids medical treatment and goes to her daughter’s home, exposing her granddaughter to whatever she may have because she’s afraid of doctors or nurses who are not on her approved list discovering why she keeps having seizures, she’s a psychopath.

Lol. Neither, actually. I am, however, a realist. I prep. Given the opportunity, I would walk out my door and join the effort when called. I hold hope that some day I may be. But again, I'm a realist, who looks at things for the truth.

Quite a few years back, I read the book, "Unintended Consequences". An amazing read, should you get the chance. It discusses the Jews in Germany in the late 30's/early 40's. One statement was, "We said nothing, for to do so would mean grave things for us". This was the statement, of course, of a fictional character that had lived through the holocaust & spent time in a camp.

The same is happening with us. The time to fight was long ago, but we are comfortable. We like that $$$ that comes from working our jobs. It pays the mortgage. It pays for nice cars and toys and such. It pays the credit card bills and the insurance premiums and puts clothes on our kid's backs and keeps the wifey happy. In effect, we are properly enslaved by it, because to do anything about our current situation would put all of that in jeopardy.

I say we've failed the Founders because they had families, jobs, homes, buggies, horses, ranches, farms too. They were willing to give it all up in a heartbeat. We are not. We are complacent. We are slaves.

Oh my goodness, Normandy is the most amazing place ever, and I can’t emphasize enough how amazing this place is to stay. It literally made our trip 100x better, you will love it! The village of Ranville is near everywhere, and this chateau has so much history in itself. The small village has a wonderful little grocery with a patisserie that is fantastic. We bought food and cooked every evening and ate outside on the chateau grounds. Just go there. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateau_de_Guernon-Ranville As far as the tours, our family went with a private tour guide but I can’t remember how we found him. If I find the info I will send it to you.

the article describes narcissistic personality disorder

If you get to Northeast France, You may want to visit Verdun, site of the great battle of WWI.

As I remember visiting the trenches and tunnels (Now filled with concrete and not dirt). How close the Germans were - 30’.

Remember to be careful as there can still be live ammunition near these sites. The French have a group that looks for this and sometimes gets injured or killed. There is an American Cemetery here. When I visited in 89, they were very appreciative of the US in WWI and WWII.

Some of them know, and protect the person doing the dirty work for them. I know of one instance where a director level individual threatened the head of HR when called down due to bad behavior. The CEO stepped in, and requested any HR issues with this person be referred to him. No disciplinary action was taken.

So I have to wonder...are you engaged in PSYOP aimed at demoralizing potential future combatants or is it that you have just personally given up?

I meant the woman wearing the t-shirt was merely stupid. I know Hillary is evil.

I haven’t heard about her firstborn.

That would be because they already have - Got a mortgage? Got rent? Got taxes due? Got car payments? Got credit card debt? Got insurance premiums? If you said yes to any of the above, the feds have already enslaved you.