Great cross country ride to St Nazaire this morning. Very hot despite lightweight jacket. Had a Gabfesters sick call this morning a group decided not to join the scenic route but would make their own way. Good. That made it a tight group of 5 for a brisk ride - excellent. Astonishing to stand in the U Boat pens where the original German pen markers are still way up high and steel doors still have German do this do that notices attached inside them - I took a peek to see.
A moving moment was the visit to La Boule cemetery where the commandos and others killed in the raid are buried. Personal interest is that my late father was taken off from St Nazaire with the REME and there are Royal Engineers at rest there too.
We then went off to see the Blockhouse - a monster defensive fort of concrete that was the last place liberated in Brittany as the allies realised it was a pointless slaughter to slog it out for St Nazaire so it was blockaded inland until everything else collapsed around it.
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