Wow! I am impressed. That sounds fabulous.
When we returned from the castle tour we rented a Renault and (after figuring out how to escape the “Peripherique” - the beltway around Paris) drove to the Normandy Beach museum and veterans cemetery and stayed overnight at a bed-and-breakfast in St. Lo.
Funny how seeing this thread brought back that trip to me like it was yesterday and not 25 years ago. When we started our trip we flew to Gatwick, spent a night in London, and then took a hovercraft across the channel from Dover. We came home the same way but had to take a ferry on the way back because the channel was too choppy for the hovercraft. I got seasick as hell and then some dude threw up on my shoe. I was unaware of the miracle of Dramamine.