Honeymoon 2006

A little ways up the beach we found a roadside eatery that spoke NO English. By now we could pronounce "Frites" so we managed to have lunch - C'est bon!	Beautiful homes, many behind stone walls covered in flowers
I didn't get in this car, I kinda put it on.	Standing in a shell crater (courtesy of the battleship USS Texas) at Pointe du Hoc, site of one of the most amazing feats of the Normandy Invasion.
These are the cliffs where Rangers under the command of LTC James Rudder did the impossible - scaling them under enemy fire.	We couldn't walk all the way to the precipice - and here is whose fault that was. See the truck? Those are Texas A&M Aggies, Ian's fellow alums, who have the place fenced off so they can study what to do to stabilize the soil of the cliffs scaled by Rudder's Rangers
View from a platform built over one of the German gun emplacements. The monolith in the background is the monument, site of President Reagan's inspirational 40th anniversary speech in 1984.	Driving through Normandy, it is not unusual to see beautiful sculptures in the stone walls beside country roads
Many of the stone buildings still showed pock marks of war	When we returned the car, we had to press "-2" for the appropriate floor in the parking garage
The beautiful Hotel du Louvre was just around the corner as we walked back to the Hotel Regina	Sunset from our window