Omaha Beach, Amiens and Home

Portmans wanted to go to the Omaha beach museum (so did I) so we drove up to Omaha beach in driving rain...there is a little museum in every town oddly enough so working out which one we thought we were going to was quite tricky. Tipped down when were getting out of the car and all got pretty wet. M&M didnt want to go to the museum so they wandered down towards the beach in the rain...when we came out we found them holed up in a seafood restaurant finishing off some of the nicest mussels I have ever tasted. Note that there are no photos from this day...just too wet!

Headed back to the cottage and spent the afternoon tidying up and packing. Weather cleared up a little (of course) once we were back packing and cleaning.
Headed off early on Saturday - lost the key to the cottage about 5 mins before we left, so after frantic search decided to leave a note and 5 euros! Raining of course, but stopped at Honfleurs at the mouth of the Seine for coffee and petrol. A very pretty little port town, but very busy. From here we made a big push to Amiens where we spent the night. Amiens has an impressive cathedral with the head of John the Baptist, tastefully displayed on a gold plate. Apparently if was half inched from Byzantium by a French knight and brought back to Amiens. According to sources we could find on the web JtB had just 3 heads, all of which are held in churches and mosques!
Other than the heads, Amiens is an interesting town, wish we had longer to spend there. The bit along river is a bit like Venice or Amsterdam - lots of really old houses along canals. They have a very interesting botanic gardens which you can only see by boat, but we were too late to see it. More police per square inch than anywhere else we have been.
Dropping the car off in Lille on Sunday morning presented more than the expected difficulties, they have an extensive one way and pedestrian only system in the city centre which meant that even thought we knew where we wanted to go we couldnt actually get there! Eventually reduced to asking directions at a service station (not as easy as it sounds when the locals dont speak your language).
Uneventful trip back to Cambridge and a boring couple of days of rain for the Portmans as we started getting ready for the move this weekend. R is heading over to Prague at the end of September to go climbing with the Portmans, M is heading to US for a couple of weeks after the school holidays and we move on Saturday. Renee is visiting (just to help us move?) for a few days.