Two different directions

Hello all,

Today we went in 2 different directions! Josephine and I went to the Bayeux Tapestries and Mike and Emily went to the Normandy War museum.

Battle of Hastings - The Tapestries tell the story of William the Bastard's war against Harold for the throne of England. William won the famous battle of 1066 and became known as William the Conquerer! Josephine and I were impressed with the life-like 70m stiching of horses, soliders, warships and battles. The story had approx. 50 scenes describing, for the mostly illerate people of the time, how great William was! The truly amazing part of it is how it survived mostly intact for a 1000 years. At one point it was used as a tarp to cover a cart full of guns in the late 1700's, but a general saw it and saved it.

Emily and I went to the Normandy Landing Museum which was very informative. The museum cover everything from the inception of the plan to the end of Aug. There was a fantastic movie in english that covered everything that happened during that time period, so therefore we didn't have to read the endless posters that hung on the wall. In the museum they had a lot of displays that covered what was worn by all the combatants and explained what they all carried. Further they had a lt of equipment inside such as AA guns and self propelled guns. We could not take pictures in side so thus there is none for this portion of the blog.

After we met up again we headed off to Juno beach were the canadians landed on June 6th. There we had a picknick on the beach where hundreds of Canadians lost their lives it was kind of wiered for me to be doing that. I collected some sand to bring home so that I could use it in a history class. Once we finished lunch we took of to the Juno centre which housed some facts about Canadians participation in the war and after. I have to say that I was disapointed in that museum! It cost more to see that museum than the other one we went to see which had more? Go figure!! Well we are in McDonalds again blogging so that is all from us today.

Mike and Jane