Citôtel Logis de France de la Coupe d'Or Lisieux

... steep to get down to the shore, it’s hard to imagine how difficult the soldiers had it. Seeing the sight at Omaha Beach really made me feel proud to be an American. After the beach, we drove onward to Saint-Malo, which is on the coast, and is a walled city. We stayed at a cute little hotel, similar to a B&B and had dinner at a nice restaurant, too bad I ordered my steak too rare…

Arrived at Ouistreham just before dark and found an Aire de Service right on the beach and this time it was free! The downside was it was right next to the ferry terminal and the 6am ferry to Portmouth the next day was kill the tranquilo the next morning. Kim's Maison du Scooby cooked up a storm. Pork fajitas on rice - delicious. I gave it 5 stars.

... and of course washed down with a few glasses of rose!

Next morning we went for a run through the village and along the beach. It was a glorious morning! Afterwards Kim went to have another potter through the village, take some photos and buy groceries while I was able to have my long awaited fiddle with Scooby ...

We started this morning planning to visit Honfleur and spend a couple of days here as it is so beautiful. But today it rains, so today it loses!
As the battery is flat too, we simply cast off and drove south west.
On the way out of Cite Europe where we took on some diesel we say a couple of hitchers, and as we were feeling in good spirits we picked them up.
They were quite chatty but after a while we were ...

TomTom is great, expect when you don't have the maps for the country you're in!
We have the full european DVD but loading all the maps onto the phone was one item that did not make it onto my big list of jobs to do before we left.
I still have the DVD with my but no DVD drive!
We have been navigating with googlemaps since ...

The first night was spent in a nice stop on the edge of the old port in Calais.
I've been here before when i did some sailing in my youth so i know it well.
It seemed safe enough as there must have been 50 motorhomes but there was a broken window overnight for someone!
We moved onto honfleur and found a nice stop 2Km from honfleur which was free and had a large football/basketball court for jake to play in

... Poop & scoop Watch your step; there is dog poop all over the place. Poop and scoop folks, poop and scoop. · Just as you'd expect Here a Citroën, there a Citroën, everywhere a Citroën (& a Renault, & a Peugeot)... but we are in France after all. And an observation Meg picked up on (I'd have never know this one). · French french The French french is way quicker than Meg's french... and more beautiful and melodic... whatever that means.

... tour highlights, and when we went inside, I was surprised at how bright it was with much less of a Baroque, ornate influence than we had seen much throughout Europe. It was simple as far as décor, but architecturally interesting with a lot of natural light and some cool crypts down below with ancient frescos still preserved. The finale of the tour, and essentially what the town of Bayeux is known for, was the Bayeux Tapestry. Now I will show some ignorance regarding history because ...

... 500 metres from the beaches and explained how they were made and how they were taken out. We also did the Canadian cemetary. He seemed to have a lot of respect for the Canadians when comparing with the Americans and the British...but that may have been because we are canadian. But the Irish are notorious for their honesty even if brutal. Ok, that's enough from me for now. ive been unreachable since Nice...those pictures are still to come as well. Riley, tell mom and dad that i wrote. =)

Ok, we don't know how we ended here, this interrail ticket gives you a sort of "ok let's catch the first train no matter where it goes" attitude that is great but sometimes you end up in dead ends. We wanted to go on the ocean, so we catch the first train going in that direction, but we catch the train too late in the afternoon. Unfortunately, it was headed to Lisiex, a small town ...