We travel to the coast of France.

Beach at Arromanches-les Bains.  Note barge on beach and in the horizon.

View from fortress at Saint Malo

Wall of fortress at Saint Malo

St.Michel

From German bunker overlooking Omaha Beach

Tea at Tim and Anne's home in St. Clair.

Road near St. Clair

We're in Paris after a wonderful stay with Rod and Destia in st. Clair.

Train arriving for our trip from Surdon to Paris

We arrived in Paris on Sunday afternoon.

Cafe in Paris

This is along the Seine River in Paris

River cruise on the Seine.

The Arc de Triomphe

Judy at the Eiffel Tower

Paris from the third level of the Eiffel Tower

Sunset from the Eiffel Tower

Judy in front of the Shakespear Store in Paris

Notre Dame Cathedral from our river cruise

Surprise!  Rod and Destia having lunch at McDonalds on our way to San Vougay, in western France or Brittany.

Iffig Parlud.  Iffig in a more serious moment.  

Rod and Destia in front of a McDonalds on our way to San Vougay.

Chateau de Kerjean.  The pigonette is on the right.

Judy and Jack at a restaurant in St. Malo.

Visit the elementary school in San Vougay.

Jack with the kids at the elementary school in San Vougay.

Jack and Judy at Roscoff on the Atlantic Ocean.  The western point of France.

On our way to Brittany

Surprise, lunch at McDonalds on our way to St. Vougay, in western France or Brittany.

This is Iffig Parlud, the leader of the memorial service for the WWII flyers.

We're at an elementary school in St. Vaguay in Brittany.

Sunday at the Chateau.

After the evening of wine and food, we started off Sunday with coffee and pastry.  We visited a near by \Chateau de Kerean, famous in France.  Below, we are inside a pigeon farm (raising pigeons) for a year around food supply.

The Chateau de Kerjean was built in the 1500s.  

Saturday, on way to Brittany.  We drove about six hours in the country side and on freeways to the west coast of France.  Same type of greenery and and farmland like western Washington or Oregon.

We visited a couple of towns (villages) along the to break up the drive a bit.

We had coffee at this small bar.  Very friendly place.

Rod and Destia while we were having coffee.

We are traveling to Brittany to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the crash of the B-17 crash.  The plane, with Rod's cousin, was shot own during a bombing raid on a major german submarine base located nearby.  The B-17 ha a seven man crew.  Only two survived.  The plane was hit by Germain fighters on the way to the base.  The pilot was trying to get the plane back to the open water for a better chance of rescue, but the plane caught fire and broke up over head.  Rod's cousin died before parts of the plane hit ground.

We are staying here at this chateau.  We arrived about 5:pm and took a tour of the grounds with about a dozen people, mostly nearby people.  One fellow took us out to where the cockpit and two engines of B-17 came down.  He was 12 at the time, and was the first on the scene and saw the bodies in the cockpit. Some to the others, when asked, spoke about what their grandparents experienced while their homes were occupied by German troops.

When we arrived we we greeted by everyone and then had crepes with wine and soft drinks.  Then, just before sunset we took a tour of the chateau and grounds and saw where some of the parts of the B-17 came down.  At about 7pm we again got together and appetizers and wine and visited for about an hour.  Then we went to the dinner room and started with a full course dinner.  Rod gave a nice speech, partly in French, thanking the people for hosting the 70th anniversary celebration.  With the late afternoon appetizers, the early evening social, through dinner and after, it was almost 1:00 am, before the festivities came to a close for the day.  To say the least, it was a joyful evening of new friends, eating delicious foods, along with plenty of wine.

In this field is where one of the engines landed.  The fellow in the green jacket is speaking in English and French and asking questions of the fellow in blue who was first on the scene.  He was in the field at the time of the crash.

It is just about sunset as we returned to the chateau.