After breakfast Mum and I visited the lively market in Port en Bessin. We then left for Cherbourg, stopping at St-Mère-Église to see the church where the paratrooper John Steele hung for two hours pretending to be dead when his parachute caught on the spire. St-Mère-Église was the site of another daring nighttime operation, as the town needed to be held on D-Day to prevent a German counterattack. The town was held but many paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne and U.S. 101st Airborne divisions lost their lives.
Dad and I visited the Airborne Museum which had an excellent multi-sensory simulation of events.
After lunch we travelled to Cherbourg and had a walk and then took the ferry back to Poole in the evening.
It was an excellent holiday. I loved seeing everyone, staying in a chateau and seeing a few of the many interesting places in Normandy. Thank you, Mum and Dad!
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