Romain is an amazing tour guide - exceptional research and organisation and very professional.
Romain Bréget - French Battlefields Guide的点评
点评:We had a customised tour spending three days with Romain following the diary of my father from June to August 1944. Not only was Romain a guide but he had a wonderful grasp of history and he shared this to give the personal diary a context. He had a binder full of maps and photographs from 1944. He had obtained a copy of the regimental war diary from the National Archive. This gave grid references to aid accuracy and taking us to exactly where my father would have been and often off the beaten track.
Romain had also down loaded audio from the Imperial War Museum of a man from Paisley who had served in the same regiment as my father. It was rather surreal driving through Normandy listening to the west coast Scottish accent but again this was a very relevant addition to our journey.
A special moment was when Romain drove up a dirt track to a farm. We got out of the car to be greeted by four lively dogs. After he explained the reason for our presence we were welcomed by madam who invited us in to meet her father. Her father was just ten when the allies, including my father’s regiment, arrived in 1944. The elderly man could recall the German occupation and showed us evidence of the shelling of an out building.
The whole three days was a wonderful immersive experience. This was an incredible tour. We would highly recommend Romain’s guiding service.
翻译:我们参加了一个定制旅行团,和罗曼一起花了三天时间,沿着我父亲1944年6月到8月的日记一路走来。罗曼不仅是一位优秀的导游,他对历史的理解也十分深刻,他将这些知识融入到日记的解读中,赋予了它更丰富的历史背景。他有一个装满1944年地图和照片的活页夹。他还从国家档案馆弄到了一份我父亲所在团的作战日志副本。这份日志提供了网格坐标,帮助我们更准确地了解当时的行踪,并带领我们前往我父亲曾经驻扎过的地方,而且常常是人迹罕至的偏僻之地。
罗曼还从帝国战争博物馆下载了一位来自佩斯利的男士的录音,他曾和我父亲在同一团服役。在诺曼底的旅途中,听着他那带有苏格兰西海岸口音的讲话,感觉有点超现实,但这无疑为我们的旅程增添了许多意义。
一个特别的时刻是,罗曼开车沿着一条土路来到一个农场。我们下车后,四只活泼的狗狗热情地迎接了我们。罗曼解释了我们此行的目的后,农场的女主人热情地邀请我们进去见她的父亲。她父亲十岁时,盟军(包括我父亲所在的部队)于1944年抵达。这位老人还能回忆起德军占领时期的情景,并向我们展示了一栋附属建筑被炮火摧毁的痕迹。
这三天的行程令人难忘,是一次精彩绝伦的沉浸式体验。这是一次令人难忘的旅行。我们强烈推荐罗曼的导游服务。