Pegasus Bridge, Normandy
We’re taking morning coffee at the Café Gondrée, which skirts the bridge. It still belongs to Arlette Gondrée, whose family owned it on D-Day. She was a girl at the time and she now stands, old but erect and schoolteacher-like, looking us over as we have breakfast and try to imagine those brave Brits who took and held the bridge so long ago.
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