BIENVENUE DANS LE NORD (Parte II)

Ours trip continued visiting the City of Rennes, the capital of Britannia (beag Bhreatain in Briton language). The city was crowded for people who were shopping in the weekly market on the streets at the centre, whereas we were walking on the old streets viewing the colored wooden houses and the most important civil buildings.

From Saint Brieuc´s Bay we went to Lannion . This City is surrounded from the atmosphere of old Britain of XVth century. The pink colour at the Granite Coast, visible through Tregacel, Perros Guidec or in the top of  Ploumanac's Beacon.

At the occident of the Bay, the town of Lamballe and its Romanic Church of Notre Dame of the Pilar is another amazing discovery on the day. We could get arrived to the beaches of Erguy, the village of Sables aux Pins and reaching finally the magic Frehel's Cape with its eternal afternoons.

Another day we went out to Cancale, we visited the port and we ate its delicious oysters with cider, while we were viewing the shape of the Mont Saint Michel emerging over the horizon of the Sea. In the afternoon, we went to Saint Malo (the city of the monk Mclaw), walking through its strength bastions and finally we swimming in its long beach in the cold water of the channel. Finally, we ended having a drink of calvados to recover the lost calories lost in the bath.

When we visited the Mont Saint Michel, I remembered The Scarlet Pimpernel adventures Novel by Baroness Orczy, when I found out the site where the prisoners of the French revolution were jailed painfully. Fortunately I touched the holy rock and I was seeing the high tide meanwhile I was feeling as an isolate monk among a sea of tourist.

In the way of Caen, we visited the city of Bayeux. We admired its wool tapestry of the chronicle of the Duke William the Conqueror, when defeated to Saxon in the battle of Hastings and became king of England. Hundred years ago of these facts, the Anglos and Saxons tribes, expelled to Britons from Great Britain to the Continent. Curiously, the same Continental will come back to England with the Normans to subject this.

The visit to the scene of the Operation Overlord (invasion of Normandy) at the World War II, began at the cliffs of the Pointe du Hoc, heroically taken by the Rangers and continued to the Omaha beach where 3,000 American soldiers and other 1,200 Germans died the D-Day and followings. We visited museums and impressive cemeteries, over all the American Militar Cemeterie at Colleville which 10,000 soldiers are buried front the sea.

These quiet lines of crosses and stars of Colleville reminded me the sentence of Churchill who said about the Courage, It is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.