Thursday, April 19-A little follow-up to Sarah's entry about our wonderful experience in Ver-sur-Mer. Indeed, we did love the relaxing time we spent there simply watching the neighbor's beautiful cows! They were quite curious about us upon our arrival and came over to the fence to check us out. After our novelty wore off, they went back to doing whatever cows do.All of a sudden, they all stood up and started following one lead cow. They ended up in a perfectly straight line and marched out of one pasture and into another....
Then, once they were reassembled, they all settled down to rest and eat after their big adventure! This may not be very interesting to many of you, but we were mesmerized!
Ver-sur-Mer is a small town on the coast nestled right between Gold and Juno Beaches. On D-Day, the British landed on Gold and the Canadian landed on Juno. In the afternoon, while Sarah and the owner's daughter, Faustine, helped each other with their respective language homework, Nick and I went for a walk to the beach nearby where the British landed on D-Day....
It was eery to be walking next to and touching these 'dinosaur' remnants of what took place here in the summer of 1944. It was quite a contrast to the tranquility of the grazing cows just up the street....
As Sarah said, later on she stayed with the owners of the B&B, while we went off to a little spot up the street they recommended for dinner. This place was like stepping back in time to the 60's-probably the last time they updated their decor! Interestingly enough, we felt we could have easily been in a little New England farmhouse restaurant...it was just missing the prerequisite photo of JFK! But what a yummy, home cooked meal they prepared for us!! Each course lovingly prepared, explained and served by the elderly wife of the owner. We had the place to ourselves until desert time when a brave, French couple entered hesitantly. We assured them they were in for a delicious meal!
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