Mum, Dad and I set off on the 8.30 ferry from Poole to Cherbourg. We had a good breakfast, a bit of a snooze and a calm crossing. We visited le phare de Gatteville where we all climbed the 365 steps up the tower to the top of the lighthouse and a fantastic view. The beam at night reaches 50km and overlaps with the beam from the lighthouse on the Isle of Wight. We stopped at Barfleur where William the Conqueror set out to England in 1066 and where his grandson William Aetheling later drowned with 300 others after delaying his trip in order to spend the day drinking and carousing.
We arrived at our hotel on the quai of the fishing port of Port en Bessin. We had a meal in busy the restaurant on the seafront called the 47th after the Royal Marines who landed there.
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