I am now in the cathedral city of Caen, moored in the old dock basin right in the centre. The cathedral is a few hundred yards away, as are many cafés and restaurants. Today was washing day aboard Jojac as the sun shone and the temperature got up to 26 degrees.  Good enough.

Much of Caen was destroyed in the war but the rebuild is very French. This is the promenade along the dockside. The city centre really starts at the white building you can see at the end.

Yesterday I came up the canal from the sea, passing through Pegasus bridge and past the first house to be liberated.

The few days before were spent in Grandcamp-Maisy, which had no Wifi - or much else, for that matter. Then  I came along all the landing beaches,  and into the remains of the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches.  There was too much swell to anchor there, about 1.5 metres, so I pressed on towards Ouistreham.  Bit of a crisis then as the seawater impeller gave up. That is the tiny rubber thing that pumps water to cool the engine. They are invariably hard to get to, particularly in a rolling boat, and although I got the cover off the pump there was no hope of getting it back on. So I sailed into Ouistreham with no engine and was towed through the sea lock by one of my fellow Teignmouth travellers,  Ian Clay. Fixed the problem yesterday morning and came up the canal under my own power again, thanks Ian!

The pics below are Grandcamp-Maisy, showing the rather fishy nature of the place and their memorial to the RAF.

 I'm staying in Caen for another week,  then on the second of June some of my fellow Fisher owners will arrive and there are all sorts of festivities planned for the D-Day 70th. After that, back to UK, but not sure where yet.