We also saw a beautiful Gothic church: Eglise Notre-Dame de Saint-Lo. It suffered major destruction during WW II bombings the summer of 1944. You can see where it had to be rebuilt in the second picture.
Many of you asked what I would be eating...We stopped to have lunch at a Creperie. I had a "galette jambon emmental." A galette is a thicker crepe (a crepe is like a VERY thin pancake). Inside is jambon (ham) and emmental (a type of cheese). It was delicious.
After lunch, we headed to the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach. Omaha Beach was one of 5 beaches that the allied forces landed on during "Operation Overlord" on June 6, 1944. We know this date as "D-Day." The view down to the beach is beautiful now, but on this day in 1944 it was a bloody battlefield as soldiers came ashore.
Over 9,000 soldiers are buried in this American cemetery, just a fraction of those that died in WW II. This includes American soldiers from all over the Normandy area throughout the war, not just those that died during this battle. It is a sobering sight to look out over the reflecting pond and see row upon row of white crosses and stars of David for each young soldier that fought for freedom during this war and lost their lives.
-Spirit of American Youth that looks out over the cemetery
We left Omaha Beach and drove to our next town: Bayeux, France. It is a city on the Aure River in the Normandy area.
In case any of you ever visit France, you should know that restaurants open between 11:00 until 2:00 and then are closed between 2:00-7:00. They reopen for dinner between 7:00-9:00. Dinner hour is much later here than what we are used to in the U.S. I can't promise that I will continue to take pictures of my food...but I did take a picture of tonight's. I had chicken with apples in cream sauce. It, too, was delicious and so pretty I HAD to take a picture.
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