To see or not to see? That is the question

We walked in to Bayeaux to see the tapestry but were informed there was a 1 1/2 hour queue starting at 12:30. Not exactly convenient in the scorching sun (29-30 C), so we made the decision to miss out and hopefully catch it again post-Covid. Apparently there is a contemporaneous copy in Reading anyway so maybe we'll see it there.

I walked to the war museum only to find it was shut for lunch so returned to J and had lunch with her. We then drove around and I went through it. Not a bad museum but with some mislabelled maps and pictures that got annoying after a few.

Hetzer: German tank destroyer

Rouen: German vehicles that couldn't cross the Seine. Reminiscent of pictures of vehicles that couldn't cross the Po. We walked on this spot.

Then it was on to Villers-Bocage for the night. This was the scene of a gutsy German counter-attack against a British advance. (Also considerable losses to the German's later on, but that's a different story.) I came here a couple years ago with Dan Taylor who wrote the excellent AtB book on the battle: Villers-Bocage: Through the Lens, so have an idea of how things went from his tiki-tour. (See After the Battle Vol 132.)

Clear skies and a 2/3 moon tonight. A star-gazing night.