Our time in Normandy has been so much fun! We have gotten quite good at finding a local boulangerie and at buying our pain au chocolates and other treats. This morning the woman in the boulangerie suggest that we might prefer to buy our coffee at the bar next door because then we could eat our pastries and drink our coffee inside.
Back at our hotel I had a nice conversation in the parking lot with a British woman. She had her husband have a home in the south of France. They take the ferry over from Bournemouth and drive to their house. She was bemoaning how stupid Brexit is and how difficult it has made visiting their house. She complained about “Bloody Forage” and I complained about Idiot Trump!
From Crépon we drove east about 60 miles to Honfleur. We stopped at the Pegasus Bridge memorial where RAF glider pilots and their crews landed and captured the bridges over the Orne River and Canal early in the morning of June 6, 1944.
A little bit farther down the road we stopped for our picnic lunch.
Honfleur is a very old port town that still has a lot of its old buildings. We are staying on the third floor of a charming 100 year old house that was turned into a hotel. The hotel is called La Petite Follie. I’m sad to say our trip is almost over. But I must say that after carrying my bag up three flights of stairs to our room one thing I’m very glad about is that I won’t have to carry my suitcase up flights of stairs too many more times!
We had an excellent dinner at a nearby restaurant, Côté Resto. We started with shrimp, then had fish and octopus and ended with chocolate cake. I only took a picture of the shrimp
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