supporting our fallen heroes..and eating good food

I went today to a city called dieppe. A city not only known for the vikings, but also for the french ports which the allied forces, mainly Canadian, stormed on August 19 1942, in an attempt to test and weaken the germn defence slightly. Well we all know how that turned out, and we know the catastrophe tht occured on that day. But if I couldnt make it to Juno beach I was at least going to visit Dieppe. Which in my opinion is more important, because of the sheer amount of Canadian lives that were cut short, and lessons learned from that raid helped D-day be a sucess.

I visited the memorial for the canadian soldiers, visited the Canadian garden (funded by teh Canadin navy, and the Canadian air force. and went down to the rocky beach where the Canadians stormed teh shores of France. Its a interesting sight to see the rocks riddles with bullet holes, the german bunkers in ruins still, and the shells of the Canadin bots or tanks still on the beach as a reminder.

Now in some places on the bech where the most bullet ridden rocks are live mussels, snails, and other shell fish. I saw some normans picking mussels for tehmselves, it was cool to see.

Although most people visit The other beaches in normandy that hosted the D-day raids, I think its important to see Dieppe as well for the role that the Canadian soldiers had in the war at the time, as well as to respect our soldiers, ones that gave their lives for us in the pst and ones that continue to fight for our rights adn freedom even in our present day.

I went for lunch in a small restaurant near the beach..(not a tourist one), and had a surprisingly good meal, although for me I would have done it differently but the flavours were really good.
I had poached in wrapped in jelly and gravlax, then I had skate wing witha cream sauce. Both were spot on in flavour and as I said pleasently surprised.

Tomorrow I am going to stay with someone else for the weekend, then move on to brittany on monday morning.

Have a great weekend and welcome to Toronto Amanda
love yehuda