Thursday, April 4th Normandy Beach Tour

We had to get up around 6:00 a.m. to get to the town of Bayeaux where we were to meet the tour bus for our Normandy Tour. The hotel staff was kind enough to open up the breakfast area early so we could get a bite to eat and some coffee before leaving!

We had booked the half day tour for 8:00 with "Overlord Tours". We parked the car and walked over to the meeting spot a little before 8:00.

Our first stop was at the Battery of Longues sur Mer:

Next stop: Omaha Beach:

Next stop: The American Military of Colville-Ser-Mer where 9287 military service members are buried.

 Names on the walls of the missing:

Another stop along the beachfront:

 Our last stop was Point du Hoc, where the 100 foot cliffs were scaled and the military took this area:

Looking out from inside the bunker:

The day was cold and very windy. It gave a small sense of what it was like that day, June 6, 1944. That day had actually been cold, windy and raining. So many died for our freedom.

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After our tour we walked around the town of Bayeux, France. We had a little lunch at a creperie in town.

Then we walked over to the Bayeux Cathedral:

then we walked over to see the Bayeux Tapestry:

Bayeux Tapestry

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William and Harold in Normandy

The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux, IPA: [tapisʁi də bajø], Norman : La telle du conquest) is an embroidered cloth—not an actual tapestry—nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.

(No pictures were allowed to be taken of the tapestry......above description is from Wikipedia.)

Cute little cat greeted us in the morning before our tour....and then we saw her again in the afternoon!

After seeing The Bayeux Tapestry we got in the car for the drive to Saint Malo, France.

We checked into our hotel: La Vilefromoy where we stayed two nights: 

After checking in, we drove downtown and walked around....

It was just a "tad bit" cold and windy!

 We have found that in Europe most shops close at 5:00. It's always fun to window shop though!

Stopped for dinner, had crepes and Cidre:

Looked around a bit more, then headed back to the hotel.

 There are eight chimneys coming out of this rooftop!