Port En Bessin

Our stop for tonight takes us to the town of Port En Bessin. Its a working fishing port that has a nice town front with a harbour. It is famous for being the place where the british brought in a temporary fuel pipe line for the DDay landings. The commandos who first landing here came under serious firepower as the German defences were almost impregnable. The commando did successfully took over the town but not without heavy losses, its a fascinating story and really sad. We did a 6 mile hike around the area which we followed using the Alltrails app.Read more