June 7 Bayeux
Breakfast was enjoyable when we retrieved Sue's bag from the dining room - safely put away by the staff.
Yesterday was D-Day memorial, so there were many celebrations taking place. We went to the Musee Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie, on the way inspecting the WWII camp set up with army tents, motor bikes, trucks, jeeps, tanks, staffed by people in WWII uniforms. The Museum contained an incredible record of the battles which raged for such a short period of time - 10,000 allies killed in 11 days of fighting. Still photos and a movie of film taken during the fighting was extremely graphic and disturbing. The destruction wreaked by both the Allies and the Germans was unbelievable. Ancient buildings, treasures, paintings, houses all destroyed. Emotionally drained, we walked across the road to the British Military Cemetery, with hundreds of white gravestones the same size, with different emblems and epitaphs - many for unknown servicemen.
After lunch we had a look at the Bayeux Tapestry - 70 metres long, graphically describing the war between Harold and William the Conqueror - and almost 1000 years old.