Wednesday, 17 June, 2015

It is our “longest day” to day so we are on the road relatively early this morning. We are off to Normandie the site of the D-Day landing in 2004. In specific, we head to Omaha Beach and the American Cemetary there.

We meet back at the vans, some are 15 minutes late, and drive along the coast past some of the landing beaches. We then head to a location where they have created a re-enactment of the Omaha Beach landing but there is no place to park and we are late for our lunch booking so we continue onto our next restaurant.

Chateau de Sully is a two Michelin Star restaurant.

Julie asked the waiter for a copy of the menu. He went to his computer and printed it out and got the Chef to autograph it. Others followed suit in the request.

We then proceed to Bayeux to view the famous tapestry. One of the well known aspects of it is the long queus to see it. No difference for us, they halted our entry and let a group of 100 enter ahead of us.

We finally get through the queue and view the famous Bayeux Tapestry. Yes, Peter, another museum visit for Patrick. For those who know nothing about it, The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long and 50 centimetres tall, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, who defeated and killed his former ally Harold of Essexin the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Thus Bill the Bastard became William the Conqueror.

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Bayeux_Tapestry

We get into the vans and drive back to our Chateaux. It was a long day but there still was time for snacks and wine. Leftover Saltbush lamb was a delight.