Normandy 2018 - DAY 04 Rain and Cemeteries

The American Omaha Beach cemetery

Sunday, 29 July 2018

For a change no sunshine today, but rain and wind all day. An excellent day to visit graveyards. 

However, we started this morning with our usual breakfast with coffee, orange juice, yogurt, brique cheese, baguette and croissants.

halfway our breakfast 😏

in the breakfast room

We visted several graveyards: a British, an American and a German one.

the British War Cemetery in Bayeux

 

On our way to the next graveyard we passed several hayfields

The American War Cemetery near Omaha beach 

unlike at the British cemetery there are no names mentioned on the crosses here. All the names are engraved in a giant wall ranked by army unit and then alphabetic by name

the Omaha beach monument, situtated on the beach close to the American graveyard

 To cheer a bit we visited the lovely shop/tasting room of the cider/calvados producer 'Ferme de la Sapiniere', where we bought several rillettes, cider and pommeau de Normandie.

The last war graveyard we visited was the German one, which is situated at La Cambe

dark plaques on the ground and black crosses 

too young to die 

We decided to have bites and drinks at our room this evening; some remaining white wine, cider with rillettes and a piece of our favourite cheese donated by James.

 Tomorrow we will leave the Chateau and move on to Bretagne to our next home for 4 nights.