The Monuments Men

Our host last night recommended that we visit Veules-Les-Roses on our way back the ferry and it was certainly a good recommendation. The River  Veules , which flows through the village, is  France’s smallest river.  Its water is used in ponds for growing  watercress  from where it finds its way to the sea through a gap in the high chalk cliffs, which overlook a sand and pebble beach.  The ferry left at 6pm and arrived in the UK at 9pm. We decided to just to ride straight home. Not the best ride we have ever had. Edward’s arrived home at about 1:30am and William’s about an hour later. It seems that every council in the country had decided to fix the roads that night The Mighty Wing gets a well deserved wash in the morning

A day spent visiting WW2 museums, cemeteries and monuments. A day also showing how an over reliance on Shat Nav combined with a pigeon understanding of French can get you a bit lost. Omaha D-Day museum mural of Churchill, the Enigma Machine and Turing. Passed this purely by chance after taking a wrong turn Next we visited Omaha beach which was filled with bus loads of Americans  The ‘Overlord Museum’ Operation Overlord was the code name for the battle of Normandy by the allied troops. ‘ American War Cemetry’  covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,389 American military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. You cannot find a single headstone out of line. The care with which the set up and care for this place is amazing. Returning back to the car park there was another Wing parked next to William’s. Not sure about it in White. Then onto Arromanches with its  staggeringly large concrete blocks remaining from the Mulberry ...