Not water, not land

Big muddy at Mont St. Michele.

They're back

Life is good on Mont St. Michele.

The day begins

The first faint stirring of tourists to come.

Whose castle, again?

This place has eyes.

Wha…top stairs?!?

…Nevermind.

The gates

Visa and Mastercard accepted.

Dis be da place

Disney for adults.

Earthy battleship

Sitting on a big rock at the mouth of the Couesnon River, Le Mont Saint Michel.

They call the wind Maria

And the call the windmill Tom Cruise.

It took a bunch of them

That's MR. Sherman to you.

Yonder lies England

The site of the beginning of the end.

A fixer upper

Never mind the shell holes.

The German view

Picturesque, not so much.

A view from the bunker

Eyes were watching lo these many years ago.

The seawall

A lot of soldiers never got farther.

Swords

Memorial on Omaha Beach.

Omaha Beach

Not quite peak season.

Normandy maneuvers

The army marches, as usual.

The road to the beaches

A bit tight, here.

A little of this, a little of that

500 years of brick and stone.