This morning we disembarked and traveled to the Peace Memorial Museum in Caen, a state-of-the-art facility that does an outstanding job of presenting the events of World War II, including D-Day very vividly. It is an excellent way to put into context what we saw at the Normandy beaches.

Still worried about the strike, our bus driver avoided Paris completely as he took us to the Novotel Hotel near the airport. Since we arrived at the hotel in a rainstorm, we all opted for eating in the hotel’s  coffee shop.