Arromanches

It would seem that I got my wish. This morning we woke to an extremely nice day. I was able to wear shorts and a t-shirt for at least most of the morning. I had to put on a sweater by mid-day. Nevertheless, we both enjoyed the warm weather until we had to leave the campsite at 2pm. At this point it had started to pour. We had originally decided to go to Bayeux to visit the D-day beaches but when I looked at the map, it wasn’t on the coast. So I changed the plans to go to Arromanches instead which was only 10 km north of Bayeux. Once we parked the van and had lunch Julie and I ventured out for a short walk. We had no intention of doing much today other than showing up. We plan to visit tomorrow. But the town is pretty small, really only one main street so we ended up walking the beaches later that night (at sunset) when the tide had decreased. This allowed us to walk right up to what we think was the old concrete dock that was made in order to support the troops during the storming of the beaches. As you can imagine, the sea is taking its toll on them, but they are still pretty impressive to see. After seeing these, it made me want to visit as much as possible in Normandy. So tomorrow we might visit the museum in town and then proceed to the other beaches. We will also make a stop in Bayeux, but a short one at that.