Oct 8, 2009
Operation EuroGo: D+5
October 8, 2009 // Caen, France
Up at 9:00 AM
Big surprise, it’s raining again, a lot.
10:30 Walked to the local patissere. Quiche for Dave, cossaint and pain du chocolate for me. Did some computer work till about 12:00. Took a taxi to Hertz Car Rental which had moved and was closed for lunch. Walked back to the hotel, and then back again to Hertz again for time killing and exercise. Rented the car and took GPS back roads route to Arromanches, D-Day Museum. Every where we went I wanted to stop and learn about the history of the places, churches, towers and the awesome castle. We really felt like we were taking the “road less traveled” to get to where we were going but since half of this trip was about the journey we were excited about everything we were seeing.
Arromanches is really neat place but also a bit of a tourist trap. We stepped into a cafe and noticed she had hamburgers. She said she did but they were frozen. What in the world! Frozen hamburgers in the seat of all great gastronomy! Ah well, we ordered them anyway. Ya. It was school lunch all over again. The frites were good though.
After visiting the museum and the beach we drove to the American Cemetery of Normandy, which was closed. Drove back to Caen on the main highway after some deft back road action due to the GPS believing there were on ramps where there weren’t any. Funnily enough the tourists in the car in front of us appeared to be having the same GPS failure as well.
18:30 Planned the next day
20:00 Hit the streets in search of a fine dinner. We found a Monoprix but it was closed. We then tried our luck at a creperie Au P’tit Chef. Great choice. I had the especial du jour Crepe, cheese, egg, spicy sausage, and rattatoullie. Yep, I et me some ratatouille. Tasty, tasty goodness.
22:00 almost time for bed.
