Normandy Campaign · 9:37pm Oct 1st, 2015
I’ve been offline for a while – apologies for not posting anything – I took some time out to do a cycle tour in Northern France with twoSteamPonies, pedalling 500km across Normandy.
Rainbow Dash decided to come along after she heard that the region is famous for its cider. Unfortunately most of the time she was too far ahead of us to keep the rain clouds away from our path.
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Fans of travel writing may recognise the cliché of arriving in a dark foreign land shrouded in mist. This is not just a literary device. It is what happens when you take an overnight boat from England to France at this time of year. Disembarking at Caen at 6:30 we made our way through the fog to the first stop on our itinerary: Pegasus Bridge, named after the emblem of the 6th Airborne Division, the glider borne troops who captured the bridge on 6th June 1944 in a daring mission to achieve a critical objective in the first minutes of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The story is quite fascinating.
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Five days later we arrived at Mont Saint Michel. The iconic abbey built on a remote island at the end of a causeway reaching out into the bay. Where, it is said, the tide comes in at the speed of a galloping pony.
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Now I have rather sore legs and a pile of wet camping gear to sort out.
At least you didn't have to fight your way through fortified Axis defenders to get ashore!
Those are some gorgeous apples in the top picture.