Caen didn’t have a campground, so we had to head out to the coast to Ouistreham. There we found 2 to chose from. The first one they were trying to put everyone on top of the other, so we opted for the 2nd. This one turned out to be overly expensive, but we bit the bullet and stayed one night anyway. In the morning we headed back into Caen to see the “Caen Memorial – A Museum for Peace”. This is a war museum that proclaims itself to be a “Museum for Peace”. I think they succeeded in their intention. As we approached the front of the building, it seemed like we were walking up to a “Fortress type of Wall” in more of a modern way. Once you are inside, you find yourself walking down a spiral walkway that is taking you from WWI and the Treaty of Versailles towards WWII. From the very start, you hear the voice of Hitler booming from all around you. On the walls are pictures taking you back to the time of WWI and on. Along with the pictures you can read about what was happening at that time…it is a great history lesson. A little later as we continued down, we started to see short movies, and articles of war, from clothes, armaments, vehicles, and planes from the time. The museum was set up so that you could learn more about how the two major wars started and why. It also showed you how the countries were rebuilt and how the people survived. Also, it showed how the USA landed onto the beaches of Omaha and Utah on D-Day. The finality of the tour was with 2 films with the accounts of D-Day and the course of the rest of the war. After 3 hours, we left feeling drained and rather insignificant in the big picture. The walk back to “Bumble Bee” was rather sullen. I guess this is one of the reasons we decided we had to come here. We saw a little bit of what WWII was about in Great Britain and the D-Day invasion, and now we are here in Normandy to see some more. We are heading west to Bayaux to find a campground, but upon getting there, we found that the door was closed..(they were filled up), so we headed on towards St Lo. Tomorrow…The Bayaux Tapestry
6 August ’05, Saturday.
Caen didn’t have a campground, so we had to head out to the coast to Ouistreham. There we found 2 to chose from. The first one they were trying to put everyone on top of the other, so we opted for the 2nd. This one turned out to be overly expensive, but we bit the bullet and stayed one night anyway. In the morning we headed back into Caen to see the “Caen Memorial – A Museum for Peace”. This is a war museum that proclaims itself to be a “Museum for Peace”. I think they succeeded in their intention. As we approached the front of the building, it seemed like we were walking up to a “Fortress type of Wall” in more of a modern way. Once you are inside, you find yourself walking down a spiral walkway that is taking you from WWI and the Treaty of Versailles towards WWII. From the very start, you hear the voice of Hitler booming from all around you. On the walls are pictures taking you back to the time of WWI and on. Along with the pictures you can read about what was happening at that time…it is a great history lesson. A little later as we continued down, we started to see short movies, and articles of war, from clothes, armaments, vehicles, and planes from the time. The museum was set up so that you could learn more about how the two major wars started and why. It also showed you how the countries were rebuilt and how the people survived. Also, it showed how the USA landed onto the beaches of Omaha and Utah on D-Day. The finality of the tour was with 2 films with the accounts of D-Day and the course of the rest of the war. After 3 hours, we left feeling drained and rather insignificant in the big picture. The walk back to “Bumble Bee” was rather sullen. I guess this is one of the reasons we decided we had to come here. We saw a little bit of what WWII was about in Great Britain and the D-Day invasion, and now we are here in Normandy to see some more. We are heading west to Bayaux to find a campground, but upon getting there, we found that the door was closed..(they were filled up), so we headed on towards St Lo. Tomorrow…The Bayaux Tapestry
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