Spend 6 nights in "Frank's House" in beautiful Sainte Mere Eglise. Tour the places and learn the stories that inspired award-winning filmmaker Christian Taylor to create The Girl Who Wore Freedom, a beautiful documentary that explains and illustrates the love the French people have for the WWII veterans, and the people of America in general. Here is Christian explaining the birth of this project:

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A Tour Through Normandy You Can’t Get Anywhere Else

Most tours of Normandy show you the beaches, the cemeteries, and the museums. Christian Taylor shows you the people - and that changes everything.

Over a decade ago, Christian followed her son Hunter, then an air assault soldier with the 101st Airborne Division, to Normandy when his division was invited by the French to be honored in the very towns and villages the 101st helped liberate in 1944. What she witnessed stunned her: an entire region of people who had been celebrating American soldiers, by name, by division, by sacrifice, every single year since 1945. She had no idea. Most Americans don’t.

That discovery launched a four-year journey of research that became the award-winning documentary The Girl Who Wore Freedom, now distributed in over 30 countries. But the film was just the beginning. Over eleven years, Christian has built deep personal relationships with French survivors, their families, local historians, and the communities that still carry this living gratitude. She knows the back roads, the untold stories, and the people who will open their doors and their hearts to share them.

Christian brings a perspective no other guide can: she’s a military mother with two sons who’ve served, Hunter, a combat veteran now flying helicopters for the Navy, and Jonathan, currently with the 4th Infantry Division. She’s the granddaughter of a WWII Navy veteran who was at Normandy on D-Day+3, and the great-niece of a soldier who fought with the 84th Infantry Division from the Battle of the Bulge to the end of the war. This history isn’t abstract for her. It’s family.

A tour with Christian isn’t sightseeing. It’s stepping into a story that’s still alive, and discovering what a liberated people can teach all of us about turning sacrifice into gratitude.