We saw Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach, where the Allied Forces came ashore on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The craters from the bombs are still visible at Pointe du Hoc...you can walk in them, on fact. On Omaha Beach, there is an older stone memorial and a relatively new metal memorial. We also saw two cemetaries: one German, one American. Such beautiful places, yet so somber...thousands of mostly young men gone.
We ate lunch in Port-en-Bessin, another smallish fishing village.
A few hours drive to Pontorson, the location of our next hotel. We saw Mont St Michel in the distance as we drove...we go there on Monday.
Dinner at the hotel: cheese in a puff pastry shell to start, chicken with mushrooms and rice, then a cream puff for dessert.
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