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  • Name: Paris
  • Search name: Paris, France

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Version 9 – June 15, 2024 08:55

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  • Experience D Day through the eyes of a Native American combat-medic from The Big Red One. Feel the horror and nobility of the army’s sacrifice amongst the ruins still strewn across Omaha Beach.

Version 8 – June 15, 2024 08:55

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  • Breathe in the air of Arles that inspired 300 masterpieces in the 16 months. The mail carrier will tell you of the town that meant so much to Van Gogh, houses and fields and, above all, light.

Version 6 – June 10, 2024 07:53

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  • Please note this tour requires a reasonable amount of walking. Please wear comfortable shoes!
  • Please note this tour requires a reasonable amount of walking. Montmatre is on a hill and many of the streets are cobblestones. Please wear comfortable shoes!

Version 5 – June 10, 2024 07:52

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  • admire the heroes who fell and those who went on to liberate the rest of france & europe, grasp the complexity of the operation, whose success in that hour still hung in the balance, listen rapt as this actor guide tells of the steps and missteps of operation overlord, meet your guide, in the guise of charles shay, combat-medic and penobscot tribe member
  • grasp the complexity of the operation, whose success in that hour still hung in the balance, listen rapt as this actor guide tells of the steps and missteps of operation overlord, meet your guide, in the guise of charles shay, combat-medic and penobscot tribe member

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  • grasp the complexity of the operation, whose success in that hour still hung in the balance, listen rapt as this actor guide tells of the steps and missteps of operation overlord, meet your guide, in the guise of charles shay, combat-medic and penobscot tribe member
  • learn the secrets of a small town that the painter loved through the eyes of the mail carrie, listen rapt as this actor guide tells of the steps and missteps of operation overlord, meet your guide, in the guise of charles shay, combat-medic and penobscot tribe member

Version 3 – June 10, 2024 07:52

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  • Relive the Normandy Landing, the hellscape of bloodshed that so many did not survive. Charles Shay, as played by your actor-guide-  is there to tend to the wounded in a desperate bid to save their lives against all hope, these men who have become - in the massive training that led to this moment– bound in friendship, in brotherhood. 
  • A proud member of the Amerindian Penobscot Nation, Charles Shay will recount the largest amphibian landing in history – 130 000 combatants –  and how it happened in record time. You will learn of Operation Neptune, Mulberry Pass, Mission Round up,and Mission Tiger among others, including the counter espionage mission, Fortitude. At his side you will learn the grand plan, and dive deeply into its complexity.
  • Only through this ordeal by fire of June 6, 1944 can there be hope of saving France and the entirety of Europe from the Nazi menace. Charles Shay,was one among the many ready to offer his life to this end. With him as witness, and through his memories, you will understand D Day as never before. You will know the violence, the sacrifice, the casualties and the ultimate triumph that lay at the day’s close, the start of a long, long road ahead of these soldiers of the Normandy beaches. 
  • Nothing about the victory was guaranteed. It might have failed tragically leaving the world victim to Fascist oppression. It was the successes of Omaha Beach that ultimately turned the tide in favor of freedom. Experience this momentous day as if you had been there with our Operation Overlord tour.
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  • learn the secrets of a small town that the painter loved through the eyes of the mail carrie, listen rapt as this actor guide tells of the steps and missteps of operation overlord, meet your guide, in the guise of charles shay, combat-medic and penobscot tribe member
  • enjoy the same light and air that the artist captured on canvas after canvas, learn the secrets of a small town that the painter loved through the eyes of the mail carrie, meet vincent van gogh through the written word while seeing the sights that inspired him, revel in the beauty of the south of france

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  • Discover Arles Through the Letters of Vincent Van Gogh - Clone
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  • Soak up Arles as you follow its mail carrier street by street, down to the river and into the meadows, showing you the places that inspired the vibrant brush of Vincent Van Gogh. Live a long moment by its slow rhythms under brilliant sun and warmth, far from the hustle of gray Paris that he fled. Feel the brightness illuminate your path over the warmed stones of the lanes of this sleepy town where the genius painted. Through his brush he immortalized its workers - men and women- its seasons, its countryside and its waterways with such care, respect and striking talent.  
  • Stroll along the streets he walked, with the mail carrier as guide, while she delivers letters to the townsfolk he knew. See the sights he himself saw, including the hospital he turned to after his shattered genius led him to slice off his ear 
  • While you follow the postal route, the artist will come alive for you through the frank yet poetic writings traded between Vincent and his brother Theo. In his own vivid but humble words, you will learn of his days and nights, his family, his money worries, his health, and his unquiet mind. But you will also learn of his art, his ideals and his philosophy, all through the letters he exchanged with his brother, the last one found in his pocket the day he took his own life.
  • As the mail carrier brings your visit to an end she will deliver a letter addressed to you personally, one of Vincent’s, painted with his words much as he painted with colors, a letter that you will open again time after time, long after you will have left Arles, an unforgettable memory of a town and the painter who loved it.

Version 1 – June 10, 2024 07:45

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  • Discover Arles Through the Letters of Vincent Van Gogh - Clone
  • Discover Arles Through the Letters of Vincent Van Gogh