Viereville-sur-Mer day 2

Today was the nicest weather day we have had in several days. It was a perfect day to explore along the D-day Normandy coast. We started by going 9 kilometers into Trévières to find a boulangerie for pastries for breakfast. We bough our pain au chocolat and pain au raisin and then went to another shop to get coffee and to eat them. We also bought a baguette for lunch.

Then we went to the American cemetery. The visitor center was very interesting and the cemetery, with 9,386 marble tombstones is moving.

The Overlord museum is very near the American Cemetery. We didn’t go in but we did stop to look at the outside displays.

Next we headed to Utah beach, the other big American D-day landing beach. On the way we stopped far a picnic lunch in Angoville-au-Plain. This area was where the 101st Airborne division paratroopers landed in a heavily defended area. Two of the paratroopers who were medics set up in this chuch and took care of wounded soldiers here for 72 hours straight.

For dinner we had mussels and pizza in the hotel bar.

After dinner we walked out on the pier in front of our hotel.