title Quettehou, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont and the D-Day Museum, Utah Beach - 4th June 2026 intro There's not much action with the Dakotas as it's still mostly too windy for parachute drops, and so Robert once again drives Nosher, Clive and the Essex Massive around Normandy - this time visiting Quettehou for a café stop, Utah Beach with its D-Day museum, and then Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, where there's another assemblage of US military vehicles and re-enactors. imgp0038 We're in the café at Cherbourg Airport again imgp0044 The 37th Airlift's Hercules flies with the W7 code imgp0052 Whisky-Seven taxis up the runway imgp0073 We stop off in Quettehou imgp0074 A military vehicle drives right over the roundabout imgp0075 Abandoned lobster pots imgp0076 Robert and Clive head off imgp0077 We're on the lookout for a café imgp0079 The town of Quettehou in Normandy imgp0081 Fresh baguettes in a boulangerie imgp0082 Clive's buys a cake and slices it up imgp0084 A closed-down boucherie imgp0085 A derelict hobbies shop imgp0086 The fancy boulanger/chocolatier we'd been to imgp0088 We briefly drive through Saint-Vast-la-Houge imgp0092 A tangle of fishing nets by the harbour imgp0093 The marina at Saint-Vast-la-Houge imgp0097 The road behind Utah Beach imgp0098 Tank traps near the Utah Beach museum imgp0100 A concrete sentry post imgp0104 A rare B-26 Marauder imgp0105 Tank traps behind the dunes imgp0107 An amphibious DUKW, or Duck imgp0109 A well-preserved bunker by the museum imgp0111 A sculpture of soldiers on Utah beach imgp0114 Utah Beach in Normandy imgp0117 A memorial built over a concrete bunker imgp0118 Walkers on the windswept beach imgp0124 The sand blows around across Utah Beach imgp0133 A gun emplacement imgp0135 Steel rungs in the gun emplacement imgp0137 A vintage motorbike rumbles up the road imgp0139 Another group of Willys Jeeps imgp0140 A funky fire hydrant in a hedge imgp0142 Jeeps outside the church at Sainte-Marie-du-Mont imgp0144 Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, in Normandy imgp0145 A jeep with the Cross of Lorraine on it imgp0151 Another very nice US staff car imgp0153 A nice French maison imgp0155 Another "almost the 1940s" photo imgp0156 Inside the church of Notre-Dame imgp0158 An unusually-short but impressive nave window imgp0159 More stained glass in an aisle chapel imgp0161 Two re-enactors have a chat imgp0163 A Jeep melée in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont imgp0167 A run-down 1930s building flies the flags imgp0168 A Jeep outside the Bar Du 6 Juin imgp0170 Eglise Notre-Dame in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont imgp0174 Rust stains on a big house