27/6/2010 Mount Bail, Cateret, and Briquequebec, France

We visited the west coast of Normandy today. We saw the sea and many towns that had been bombed and like a phoenix, eventually rose again. We ate lunch in Mount Bail on the seashore at a nice little seafood place. This was the first restaurant that had the menu subtitled in English. Thank Jesus, because it was full of mussels, clams, and other beasty things that I will not eat. I did find a grilled cheese and ham sandwich, but unfortunately it was the kids’ menu and I couldn’t order from it. I did finally find a Salade Nordique that was nice. It was basically lettuce with salmon and what tasted to be sour cream and there were no accusatory eyes looking at me, so I ate it. (Note to self, ‘doggie bag’ does not translate.) We got ice cream afterward in Cateret, while walking along the shore and that was more my speed. We came home around 7 and like all vacationers, we read until bedtime. I am finishing up my 4th book that I’ve read this holiday and I didn’t start any of them until after the troops left. You can see we’ve slowed our pace considerably.