| Most of the land around the university and commercial town of Caen is taken up with cereal crops. |
| Once at sea, the ship will join a flotilla of military vessels that played a part in the landings in a ceremonial crossing of the Channel before berthing at Caen. |
| On the Caen plains, in Calvados, a French department that boasts more than 900 historic monuments. |
| Montgomery accepted to loose of his glory by carrying out ungrateful operations against German elite troops garrisoned around Caen. |
| Each ship thus makes a return journey plus a single leg each day, starting from Caen one day and from Portsmouth the next. |
| The pair pushed on first to Lion-sur-Mer, then Hermanville-sur-Mer, before they set up their station in Caen. |
