TALE OF TWO CITIES DAY 4

It is now after the 4th of July but I have not yet finished my vacation blog so here goes another day. On that Wednesday we took a day trip to Normandy.  To be honest, there is so much to see it would have been great to have more time but we did the best we could.  Out guide literally put the metal to the pedal to get us there in record time.  The speed limit appeared to be about 110 km but I clocked him at 140 km.  Literally the cars next to us were blurs as we passed them by.  Our first stop was the town of Caens.  There we toured the D-Day museum.  Out front was a huge statue of the sailor and nurse in the infamous kiss as WWII ended.  Inside we went on a visual tour of the timeline from the war in England and the museum ended in D-Day.

After the museum we drove to Pont du Hoc.  Pont du Hoc is located between Omaha and Utah Beach.  There were German bunkers here with guns firing out into the English channel.  Some could fire as far as 10 miles.

After Pont du Hoc we drove to Arromanche which was named Gold Beach.  We had lunch there (I finally had my crepe) and then we made a quick stop at Juno Beach.  Juno was where the Canadians landed and we had a Canadian in our tour.  From there we went to the American Cemetery and then down to Omaha Beach.  The American Cemetery is set on a beautiful cliff overlooking Omaha Beach.  There are over 7,000 Americans buried there and the names of about 1200 more whose remains were never found.

The day ended with a fast drive back to Paris.  We then packed and got ready to head to the airport for our trip to Lisbon Portugal.