Blogging in Bayeux

Sorry for the break in writing, it's been a very hectic week. I had numerous papers due, and on Friday and Saturday, our program ran our model European Union summit (in which I was the EU commissioner for internal and external relations) which ran from 10-6 each day. The papers were not fun but the summit was. Although stressful at times, I felt as if our model EU summit encountered many of the same difficulties that the real prime and foreign ministers would encounter.

Today I am writing while sitting along a little river in the area of Normandy, France (see picture above). The town is called Bayeux and is about 15-20 kilometers from Omaha Beach, where the D-Day assault encountered the strongest resistance. I just booked a ticket for a bus ride to Omaha Beach as well as Pointe du Hoc and the German artillery installments at Longue sur Mer.

The adventure getting here was exciting but also a little stressful. I may write about that more later, but ask me if you are interested.

Tomorrow morning I leave here and take the train back to Paris, where I'll immediately transfer and take the Chunnel to London, where I spend another 48 hours or so before going back to Freiburg. This trip would have been cheaper if I would have cut out the trip to Normandy, but missing the opportunity to see the places that the Allies landed and parachuted into was something I could not do.

I must go now and see an apparently world-famous tapestry that is here in Bayeux before I leave for the beaches. I'll blog again when I am not so rushed and am back in Freiburg. I promise I'll have better pictures. Before I go a reality check for me: Three weeks left in Europe... Wow.