Kyriad - Le Havre Centre

... there. It was beautiful, haunting, and eerie to see the sight of where the troupes landed on D-Day. When I was in the museum, I was listening to an interactive audio recording of soldier’s experiences from D-Day, and the first button I happened to push was of a soldier from Mt. Vernon, IL! What a small world. To climb down to the actual beach part of Omaha Beach took awhile. It’s ...

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.

From Rouen we drove to Honfleur, which is a tiny harbour town on the Normandy coast. So so cute!!!! We wandered around checking out the wee boutique shops and eating galeti - yum! Nothing for dinner and as it was Sunday only one little grocery shop was open with not much selection so we opted for a fillet of freshly caught ...

Onwards to Etretat for our first overnight stay in an Aires de service. These are overnight parking areas for campers and moterhomes and supply fresh water, electricity and waste dumping facilities. All at a rock bottom price. This one was 5 Euro for the parking a and extra 2 euro for the water and electirc hookup.
Town has spectacular cliffs beautiful old building full of character.

... and not wanting to feed five of us, we regretted the company as we did not want to stop.
We dropped them off at the entrace to another motorway and wished them on their way. We promptly stopped for lunch and a coffee!
Another experience ticked off our list at least.
As things were going well we carried onto through to Noirmoutier to our latest "Aires" in the centre of Noirmoutier at 7 euros per night

... which works to a point but when you're paying two pound per Mb it get expensive. In the great scheme of things its not much when your running a 7 ton bus but its still stupid and it does not re-route if (when)you take a good turning.
On the way to Noirmoutier, it attempted to take us over the "alternative" crossing at high tide!!

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

... day. I hope that I will be able to keep up with the blog. I will try and stay as current as I can. Hunt for Harriet Results. This was a hard hunt but we are starting to see some positive results. I will post the final results with the Zeebruge blog entry. Today at this port we will let all of the hunters also have a day off so that when we reach Zeebruge, Belgium we will all be ready to charge down the homestretch of this world cruise

... other two drivers "au revoir" and thanked him for an awesome tour. After dropping off coats, etc at the cabin, we took off for the buffet for a late dinner. The offerings were sparse but we did have salad, center-cut pork loin chop, bread and strawberry ice cream. John also had a few pieces of pepperoni and cheese pizza. End of another long day and it was time to sleep. Luckily we gain back an hour in the morning.

... After back at the YH where I met Guiseppe and also a Neo-Zelandese who talk way too fast for me. Now some sleep under the noise of the thunder and its lightning! Peace memorial: D-Day = 50 000 men / 1500 tanks / 2500 ATV / 3000 canons / 10500 other cars German army involved at the moment: -206 russian divisions -22 italian divisions -50 France-Benelux -18 Danemark-Norway -24 Balkans