and witnessed settings of\u00a0events<\/div>\n

that lead to the Liberation of France<\/div>\n

nine hundred years later.<\/div>\n

Beaches and bunkers.<\/div>\n

That was cloud cover but sunshine,<\/div>\n

it was and soon but and so on,<\/div>\n

and it was sombre but it was whatever is
\nthe opposite of sombre. Sort of\u00a0like<\/div>\n

moonlight or birds that do not fly.<\/div>\n

There were these two idiots also on our tour.<\/div>\n

One told us a bad joke about<\/div>\n

the lion\u00a0and the giraffe.<\/div>\n

Following this he told a story where<\/div>\n

he followed a cat into a bar.<\/div>\n

We all thought he was telling<\/div>\n

another joke but\u00a0he really followed a cat into a bar<\/div>\n

and nothing else happened.<\/div>\n

Well, he took a picture, but we weren’t that interested in seeing it.<\/div>\n

The cat certainly did not order\u00a0the drink that we did later\u00a0that night;<\/div>\n

a drink that\u00a0the Normans said was called \u2018the ambush.\u2019<\/div>\n

The drink was true to its namesake, or else<\/div>\n

maybe I could tell you what was in it.<\/div>\n

It tasted just like ambush.<\/div>\n

And then that night there were fireworks.<\/div>\n

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Normandy Next we travelled to the Normandy coast and to a town called Bayeux. In Bayeux there is a tapestry which depicts events leading up to the Norman conquest of England. Unfortunately, we did not see the tapestry\u2014though we heard it was nice. We went on a D-Day tour and witnessed settings of\u00a0events that lead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andsoon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andsoon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andsoon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andsoon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andsoon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/andsoon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/andsoon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andsoon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andsoon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andsoon.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}