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25th September 2013
Mt. Biking: Benouville to Ouistreham Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: cloudy Max Speed: Distance Covered:
Wednesday 25th September – Bike and walk *** Benouville to Ouistreham -
cloudy
The little cat brought her kitten to play:) Such a chubby little thing,
she has done a great job to bring her up so well living in a clearing by
the canal! It must be lots of friendly camper vans feeding her. We gave
her lots more ham and they both had a bowl of milk. The kitten was in the
bowl at some points! We decided to bike to Sword beach after breakfast as
it seems too nice to travel all day. We biked across Pegasus bridge and
along the canal until we reached Ouistreham and the war memorial on the
beach. There is a brilliant bike path all the way and we got up a good
speed! Back to the van to share lunch with the cat – kitten must have
been asleep. She had a real treat, tinned fish from me and ham from Mag
then more milk! It was quite hard to leave her really:( We left about 1
and drove to Mont St. Michel which was just over 90 miles. We called in at
the only solely German cemetery which overlooks the Mont. It was very
poignant, nearly 12,000 soldiers in vaults containing 180 bodies per vault.
They were all re-buried here together in 1961 from many areas of France
and from as far away as the channel islands. We have been into the town at
Mont St. Michel before and it is full of trinket and souvenir shops so we
didn’t want to go in again but it is very impressive to look at from a
distance so we parked in a picnic area a couple of miles away and admired
it from afar. We met a couple from Australia and got chatting to them so
sat at a picnic bench and made us all a cuppa. Before tea we walked for
nearly an hour towards the Mont across the field of sheep beside the van .
There are lambs which we couldn’t quite understand as it seems the wrong
time of year. Took lots of photos of the Mont at sunset and lit up in the
dark. We are going to chance staying here tonight.
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