Nous sommes arrives

Well we made it. It was a long evening of travel but we finaly got to Bayeux by 3. Our biggest problem so far is using the french designed computer keyboards to type.

Bayeux is a town with some incredible history, it has been around since the 10th century where it was a key town in the Duchy of William the Conqueror as well as an important piece of D-day.

It has been really neat going around to the different villages that were a part of William the Conqueror's history. We have been to Caen, Falaise and Bayeux. All these towns have buildings and primarily churches that are over a 1000 years old. In Caen we went to one of the abbey's William had built to appease the pope as he married his cousin - 5th cousin Mathilde. In Falaise we visited his castle. It is quite amazing to see the history of the Rollo's and we have some nice photos to prove it.

On Wednesday we visited the D-day beaches. Our first stop was the Canadian landing at Juno. There we visited the canadian museum. It was quite a moving experience, on our exit we ran into a bunch of canadian ww2 vets, which made it even more emotional being there. Our next stop was Omaha beach where the americans came ashore. It is quite incredible imaginaing the dificulty they had in getting up the beach to the German positions.

We are now in Dijon and on aour way to Beaune where we will do some wine tour.....arranged thru Del before heading further south around Nice and Monaco.

I hope to post some pictures but there is so much to see that I may not get much of a chance.

take care all and see you in a few more weeks....a bientot