I’ve managed to get a pitch on a small campsite 15 minutes away from the ferry port for our last two days. I sent an email request in my best French yesterday evening and had a response first thing. Happy days.

We decide to while away our morning visiting the Juno Beach Centre. It was built in 2003 and opened by veterans and volunteers. It’s a thought provoking museum beautifully curated and very moving.

The Centre is a permanent memorial to all Canadians who served during the WWII at home and abroad and to the 45,000 who lost their lives during the War.

Canada mobilised over 1.1 million volunteers from a population of 11.2 million, a formidable airforce and the third largest navy and created a power house of industry with Canadian factories producing nearly $10 billion worth of war materials, including aircraft, vehicles, and naval ships. I really hadn’t appreciated the scale of Canada’s support and importance to Britain and the significance of its contribution to WWII. A museum most definitely worth visiting.

On Juno beach we take a look at the Cross de Lorraine, a granite cross that marks General de Gaulle’s return to French soil in June 1944.

Onto our campsite which is lovely and green to a large pitch with hedges and trees.

We enjoy lunch outside, a cooling swim early evening, dry off in the sunshine and eventually our final BBQ of the holiday.

A day filled with history and sunshine.

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