Parachute drop at Ste Mere Eglise

US Paratroopers - article to follow!!!!

Henry turned up to pick us up under heavy skies and strong winds. We sped to St Mere Eglise and arrived as it started to pour! As we walked into the village two planes let their paratroopers out at the minimum level of 800 feet! They did their best, but most couldn't jump on the day.

St Mere Eglise is famous for the US paratrooper getting caught up on the steeple as you would have seen in the movie. He survived!!

If you've read some of our "unedited material" you'll understand the trouble I'm having particularly with the French keyboard. I'm a touch typist and with the a, w, z, q, m, x, comma, fullstop, and all punctuation not where it's supposed to be, I get a bit "snootty" about paying 4 euros an hour when 1/3 of my time is spent correcting. We never quit early, we get told "its time to leave because we are closing."

We're feeling the pinch so badly we either eat "MACKERS" or "DONER KEBABS", endearingly refered to by Lang as "bacteria rolls!" Two big Macs cost 7.40 euro and the doner kebabs are under 10 euro. We'll gladly give the Mackers a miss, but will probably go looking for doner kebabs when we get home. "Mustard Nose" is an unpleasant side effect of eating a sausage in baguette here. Try it some time!

Most of the women on the convoy have cooked an evening meal right through, and good for them, but I can boast that I haven't used my saucepan yet and now that the gas bottle is empty we don't even have a cuppa.

It's been windy since leaving Peter Tombs farm, in fact it's turned very cold especially at night and a lot of people are admitting that they are sleeping in their clothes.