00:18 Arromanches - Remnants of Mulberry Harbour
01:50 The British Normandy Memorial
04:17 Beuvron-en-Auge - Market day in this beautiful French village
06:27 Rouen - Cathédrale Notre-Dame -much-painted by Impressionist Claude Monet.
09:20 Lyons-la-Forêt - A charming, typically Norman village
As we travel East back towards our channel crossing Day 20ofthe trip was a wild, windy and very wet day. By the time we reached our overnight stop in Arromanches the weather began to calm. This final video shows Day 21 when we happily had a very much better day. Arromanches was the site of a temporary harbour built at the time of the Normandy Landings during World War Two. Here after allied troops had stormed ashore a harbour was constructed to enable more supplies and troops could land more easily. Concrete of this remains can still be seen. On the cliffs above memorials mark the fact of the landings and those who lost their lives while attempting to come ashore. We continue along the coast to the more recent British Normandy Landings Memorial. On this Sunday morning we were early enough to be the only ones present.
Soon we head away from the coast for a stop in pretty Beuvron en Auge. The village was busy with a country fair filling the streets with life and colour. In the afternoon we pause in Rouen, the historic capital of Normandy. At its heart wonderful streets of timber framed buildings surround one of the most magnificent of French Cathedrals.
One more stop, in Lyons-la-Foret, rounds off the day before we stop overnight in the heart of Amiens. The following morning we travelled directly to our ferry back to the UK with plenty more memories and the desire toplan our next trip.
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