Day 1

Mann tours Europe has started 🤗

We had an early start to Dover and made the earlier crossing with Irish ferries 

The hotel inn at Calais was so good again and so near to the port in a small village with a windmill and free range cockerel and hens in their car park!

Day2

Left Calais and headed towards Le Havre and the landing day beaches in normandy.  

On the motorway A28 we crossed over the 2 steep valleys on high viaduct bridges.

(Last time I did this on my own in a thunderstorm with lashing rain and lightning all around. I remember being terrorised  and scared! That was in about 2001)

As we crossed the River Seine we stopped at the viewing point to see the beautiful bridge and see the wetlands nature reserve

We heard lots of birds in the reef beds and saw a huge egret fly over, 

We headed for Arromanches,

At Juno beach we saw the Canadian museum and the beach and memorials. Reading the soldiers memories was so sad. I felt very emotional . It was so beautiful that stretch of dunes and turquoise sea, It was wild with strong waves but peaceful. Very hard to imagine the scene as thousands lost their lives…..

We then headed via bayeux to pick up the motorway.

Ironically for us the Bayeux tapestry is packed away ready to be shown in London!  (But we knew about this and plan to see it in Britain )

We are now near to mont st. Michel more tomorrow.