Mont St-Michel Abbey
It takes some effort to reach the abbey. Once there there is a maze of beautiful empty rooms. We didn’t use the audio guide, just the printed pamphlet.
Normandy
Mont St-Michel
If you’ve seen photos of Mont St-Michel you’ve seen the highlights already. 1 night fit easily enough into our itinerary. I don’t know that I’d go out of the way for it.
Bayeux Cathedral
The Bayeux cathedral dominates the middle of town and makes a good reference point while walking around. The inside is also worth seeing and is free.
D-Day Tour
Our tour of the Omaha and Utah beaches had a nice balance of overall strategy and tactics plus personal details from different sites.
Bayeux
Bayeux is a nice walkable town with a cathedral and proximity to D-Day sites. It would have made a nice first stop in France had we not gone to Honfleur. We spent 3 nights there.
St Catherine’s Church
Église Sainte Catherine is one of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France. It’s worth a quick visit inside, especially if you run into a rainy day like we did.
Garden of Personalities
This garden isn’t worth going out of your way for, but if you’re in the area it makes a nice walk and it made an interesting alternative to retracing our steps along the seawall pathway.
Honfleur
I chose Honfleur for our first stop because I knew we would we tired and jetlagged and Honfleur was described as a town great for wandering, without a lot of must-see sights. That sounded perfect for our first 4 nights.