History Everywhere We Drive

Even when we got semi-lost leaving Livarot we stumbled upon nuggetd of history. We decided to head toward Ste-Mere-Eglise, the farthest west of all the D-Day sites. Our two GPS devices disagreed on the route to take so we improvised. Instead of going all the way back North to Caen then heading west, we tried to triangulate. This resulted in our ending up on some rather narrow farm roads seemingly in the middle of nowhere. We drove for miles with no cars or people in sight. In fact, all that was in sight were miles upon miles of open fields. That is until we started to drive up from a gully flooded by the recent rains and then spotted a Canadian flag out in the middle of this farmland hill.