Monuments, beaches and long way round

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 Harbour towed over from Britain in June 1944

There was also the Ariel parked up with a UK private place. You don’t see many of them 

Next was the British Normandy War memorial. Immaculately kept but typical of Britain you had to pay for parking (free everywhere else)

It was at this point it all went a bit Pete Tong. Turns out that Les Marronniers actually translates to Chestnut Tree and is not the name of the town we were staying in. Google maps simply took us to a random tree 60Km from where we were supposed to be. Oh how we laughed (Not!)

Our digs for the night, very posh with Spar bath and Sauna.





They had stopped serving food forcing us to ride 9km to the nearest tow to have a very expensive meal.











Closing thought for the day is that Edward’s boots smell like road kill.

Good night