My missus and kids also had a great holiday as there is plenty to do in Normandy anyway.
My missus, not a great scholar of history, found it all fascinating.
What I found striking was the small memorials, local ones paid for my communities, doted around, showing the resort of small skirmishes that liberated small hamlets, footnotes in regimental histories, which cost lives.
500m from our farmhouse was a memorial to a Lancaster crew that had crashed on that spot. Flags of the UK, Oz & SA flew, showing the nationality of the crew.