I haven’t been feeling well the last few days, so I really
don’t have much energy so I have combined posts for the past two days into one.
On Monday despite feeling crappy (me not Peter), we headed
out St. Mere Eglise. It’s a little town
that was part of the American D-Day landings, as it’s near Utah Beach. In the centre of town, there is a church and
on the west side of the church you will see a parachutist hung up on church
roof. During the landings an American parachutist
had made his jump, but accidently got his parachute caught on a peak and was
shot and decided it was best to play dead.
Unfortunately he ended up being captured by the Germans, but survived
the war. (I couldn't grab a picture as it was raining, but trust me there is a mannequin with a parachute)
St. Mere Eglise was also used in filming Saving Private
Ryan. We visited the museum dedicated to
the 1st Airborne Div. It was
a small museum with many belongings from the various members of the
Division. There were stories of individual
men and in some cases even the stories of what happened to them after the war.
On the way back we visited the ruins of the Abby of Hambye…
and met a few cows along the way…lol….
On Tuesday, I decided that I needed drugs to take care of
how I was feeling. So we set out to find
a pharmacy, but sadly we arrived in Coutances at lunch time so the pharmacies
were all closed until 2 pm. What else
could we do then, but find somewhere for lunch.
Peter chose Oncle Scott’s…it was an experience…picture the French’s interpretation
on a Western…there were wagon wheels and cowboy hats and old country music
blaring…t’was an experience to say the least….
Peter ordered Smocked Ribs…yup smocked not smoked…I ordered
the Canadian fish…it was their interpretation on fish and chips…the menu even
explained the fish was caught on small boats with 2-3 fishermen on Canada’s
lakes… the fish was alright but the batter was not right…oh well… the menu was
sort of like someone wanted to do American food but then changed the flavours
and ingredients for the French pallet…the results are odd…you can get horse
steaks (yuk), Australian Kangaroo, frogs legs and Cajun “pain au viande”…ummm
their version of meat loaf…shudder...all in all it is an odd experience but
they did serve Pepsi, Budweiser and Coronas which they are probably the only
place serving these…
Now I know you are probably asking why I’d try the fish but
I have been reacting to everything I eat…I suspect pork fat is used as a fat or
oil cooking anything… as a result eating hasn’t been as much fun and the fish
were fried in vegetable oil…I have since found when doing groceries despite the
label stating beef or lamb or chicken, I have found they use pork fat in all
sorts of things…I seemed to have booked our holiday in an area known for lots
and lots of pork…at restaurants almost every dish has pork, lardons (bacon) or
ham and so it doesn’t leave me much to order…
After lunch, we located a pharmacy and went to pick up some
Tylenol and sinus medication…except…they don’t sell either here…Houston we have
a problem…so after a trying time explaining to the pharmacist what I was
looking for and what my symptoms are I left with something that was to deal
with the fever and something else for the congestion…a powder to mix into cold
or hot water…I have no idea what either were as I couldn’t recognize the
medicinal ingredients … all I could hope was that I wouldn’t react to any of
it…I tried explaining my allergies to the pharmacist but she didn’t seem to
recognize any of the drug names…and I couldn’t get any cough syrup…they don’t
sell it…sigh…
Anyways, I took my purchases home and decided to give in and
give the stuff a try… and crawled into bed to nap…By this point I was resigning
myself to the fact I should have packed a medicine cabinet, but I had assumed
that I could pickup anything I might need…now I am just hoping to avoid trying
out the French medical system…although I am pretty sure I have bronchitis…boo
hiss…
Bonne nuit!
LOL
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