A small move to a camp so we can top up our power, have showers, do laundry etc. We may be due for rain for the coming week so our batteries may not be recharged as fully each day. It will be a respite from the stinking hot we've had recently, though it's still expected to be in the late 20s.
We hear the UK is threatening to impose lockdown on those coming in from France due to the raise in cases France has seen this week. The UKs figures are worse than France's so it's a bit rich, but it shouldn't affect us anyway as we'll be here for a while yet.
Our day was spent in St Mere Eglise which is famous for its parachutist battle. Those who've watched The Longest Day may recognise it. A stick of paras landed directly on the town, and one of them landed on the church steeple and had to pretend to be dead for two hours before he was taken prisoner by two Germans, though he escaped from them not too long after. Of the stick of 36 odd, 11 were killed or wounded in the village in those first hours of D-Day.
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| Campsite is OK, with big pitches, but laundry was an extra 5€ which was a bit steep, and it was very busy. |
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| I can't help myself: Then (the main north-south road through town)... |
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| ...and now. If it's not a cafe, it's militaria. |
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| They've hung John Steele up for tourists, though he's on the wrong side of the steeple. He jumped into Sicily, Salerno, Normandy, Nijmegan (or Eindhoven?) and the Rhine! |
The museum is OK, with augmented reality tablets, though after so many it is hard to find some new and interesting snippet.
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