Day 2 - Home comforts

After deciding that we wanted to stay on campsites during our travels, today saw us in search of one.  But first, a trip to the supermarket (which we forgot yesterday). In France shops are only open until lunchtime on Sunday, and then it's only some. Luckily there was a small supermarket near our aire, but it closed at midday, so no lie-in for Lee today! 

I do like a nice full fridge for camping


We'd found a campsite down the road from the aire, but we couldn't check I'm until 2pm so we had some time to kill. I'd used my GCSE French (I did get an A!) to check if they had a pitch, so we went back to the Pegasus Bridge to visit the museum. We arrived as an English language tour was starting, so we tagged along. It was really interesting and a reminder of how many Allied soldiers lost their lives on D-Day alone. 

There's a bar/bistro across the river from the museum, so we had lunch sat outside in the sunshine and it was lovely. 

Back to the campsite, and my GCSE, with some help from Google translate in advance, got us booked in. It's just the sort of campsite that we like; quite basic, but with electricity and showers, and somewhere to plonk our camping chairs and have a beer.  Which we did as soon as we'd got set up. It's a very peaceful site, with nothing but the birds keeping us company. 

Today's pics:


The original Pegasus Bridge that was captured from the Germans in the early hours of 5 June 1944

One of the HORSA gliders which dropped the soldiers behind enemy lines

A photo of the bridge after it had been captured.  You can see one of the gliders in the background

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