Words cannot adequately express how disappointed we were that the brush shop in La Chartre wasn’t open this morning. We just knew the right brush for us was lurking in its depths.
Our route to Carentan included a detour for lunch with our friends, Jane and David, at their holiday home in Lassay les Chateux. We haven’t see them for a few years and David maintains he is still deeply scarred from joining us on a JustGo Italian Motorhome relocation back in 2018.
They are holidaying with their friends Chris and David, who we have not met before and spent an interesting afternoon getting to know them. It turned out that John had met David before, he was John’s tutor, when he did his degree, and supervised his Field Trip to Cyprus. As they say, it’s a small world
We were very close to Bagnoles de l’Orne where we had an apartment for many years and took a drive through. It was very busy so we didn’t stop but managed a nostalgic photo of the building. Kim wondered why we don’t have a place in France or a motorhome. John continued to pretend he hadn’t heard and simply ignored her.
Our final night is in Carentan, in a hotel with very tired rooms. After the lovely places we’ve stayed, it’s come as quite a shock but we’re here to see The Longest Yarn. It’s a knitted and crocheted depiction of scenes from the D-Day landings. Kim and her friend Rowena contributed 20 of the 10,000 poppies needed for the display. Not only do we need to identify these 20 poppies but admire the creativity that has gone into the 80m display. That’s our task for tomorrow morning, before we board the afternoon sailing from Ouistreham.
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