Arromanches is a lovely village on Gold Beach which was the site of the Mulberry harbour floated over by the allied troops for the D-Day landings. Essentially a huge Meccano kit, Port Winston, as it became known, was built in 48 hours and consisted of concrete blocks, old ships and steel bridges. All that remains today is a few concrete blocks but you can still see the extent of the harbour around the coast.
We went into the Musee de Embarkment and watched a couple of movies about it and saw models of the landing and harbour. We met a Canadian couple who had worked near Middlesborough and recognised Victorias accent. Haha.
We climbed the hill up to the Arromanches 360 cinema and watched another movie about the landings. Then we jumped in our luxury French automobile and headed towards Courselles sur Mer and the Juno beach centre.
The Juno beach centre is unique in being funded and staffed by Canadians and tells the story of Canada's contribution to D-Day and a bit of 20th century Canadian history. We were in there for over an hour so it was pretty good.
The centre is right on the most gorgeous sandy beach -Juno - and hidden behind the dunes were German bunkers & artillery.
We headed back with a detour through Courselles sur Mer Centre Ville, which was really pretty, and back to the caravan for some bread and cheese.
After a (long) nap, we've had tea (bread & cheese) while listening to the radio - we can just pick up Radio 5 and 4 on our tiny analogue radio so have Paralympic coverage still!!
Bite looking a bit better - swelling going down but had to wear shorts all day as its v itchy.
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