Kyriad Deauville St Arnoult

... 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 ...

... others of the peruasion. This was a bautifl location but the church bell close-by tolled the hour not just once but twice - firstly just before the hour and again just after. It didn't forget to remind us of the quarter and half hours too. That, together with our bites and a dog that barked the night away didn't add up to swet dreams. 26.08.09 Parthenay N46.38'20" W0.15'49" Never again will I buy gas at a petrol station. Doing so because the Intermarche was in lunch ...

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

... from the tour guide on the other bus. Apparently they were held up because they realized that one gentlemen was not with them. As they questioned his whereabouts they realized he was not at breakfast. So Allison, along with the hotel staff had gone to check his room. Jim Norene, a 502nd veteran with the 101st Division was found dead in his bed. Jim was traveling alone and as we later found out, he was suffering from stage 4 cancer and was pretty ill. Another ...

... 3 hours looking and asking around for internet. There was everything else in triple but no internet cafe. Only in the hotels for like 12 euros an hour. I went back to the hostel and saw there was a tv with a sign that said "US videos". It was bulls#2t. There were US movies but were all dubbed in french. I started to watch hot shots 2 in french then gove up. The only thing that was in english was an old documentary on D Day where what now would have been computer models were ...

... shame my teachers and family. i've been virtually unreachable for the last few weeks by sheer lack of desire to correspond (sorry mom). i have read every piece of email that was sent to me...not always responding though. For instance, in Bayeux the internet was 7 Euros an hour...so i didnt want to spend a lot of time on there. i can't see it improving brilliant amounts before the end of my trip because i actually enjoy not having the pressures of needing to connect to a world ...