What a great weekend!

This past weekend we took a road trip to the Normandy region of France; which included Caen, Bayeux, Omaha Beach, Cabourg, Deauville, Trouville, Honfleur and Etretat. Our first stop was the Memorial Museaum in Caen. It was a very modern museum which recounted World War I, World War II and the Cold War. From the museum we drove into Bayeux.

Bayeux is a very lovely, quaint little French town with lots of shopping and cafes. It's main attractions are the Bayeux tapestry, a 230 ft long tapestry which depicts the 1066 Norman invasion of England, and their own Notre Dame cathedral. Our hotel, Hotel d'Argouges, was a beautiful French hotel made up of three "houses". We stayed in the Garden House overlooking the courtyard. Later that night we walked around town and had dinner at Le Pommier.

The next morning we headed to Omaha beach to visit the American Cemetary and the D-Day landing sites. The cemetary was breathtakingly beautiful and very serene. On the D-Day landing site in Omaha there is a spectacular metal sculpture called "Les Braves". It was created by a Frenchman to honor the Americans who gave their lives to liberate his country.

After Omaha Beach we drove to the seaside resort town of Cabourg. We stayed at Le Grand Hotel de Cabourg and it was gorgeous. Marcel Proust used to come there to write. Now they have a suite named after him and you can stay in the same room he used to. Our suite had an amazing ocean view and the entire room was just so impressive. We walked around town and then had drinks and dinner back at our hotel, where we ejoyed the world's best frozen cosmos, oysters and a fantastic French seafood dinner.

The next morning we drove through the other seaside towns of Deauville and Trouville and stopped in Honfleur for some walking and lunch. Afterwards we drove to Etretat and hiked up their famous cliffs that surround the small town. The view from top of the cliff was breathtaking! It was definitely worth the climb.

The weekend went off without a hitch and we had sunny but chilly weather all the way through (it's said that it rains daily in Normandy), so we were very fortunate. Now we are back at our apartment and getting ready to enjoy our last month of Paris. We still have some sites and museums to visit (and some restaurants!) before the big move!!!