After staying up past midnight watching the Longest Day, we kinda slept in. Today is Bayeux day, we are exploring the town. Our first stop is the Bayeux Tapestry, which isn’t from Bayeux and isn’t a tapestry. It’s 68.9 meters long and was made somewhere (no one knows for sure, maybe England, maybe Normandy) in 1066. It depicts the story of William the Conqueror. Everyone has a headphone so they can listen in their preferred language, and they move at the same pace. There is a movie at the end. Deb is a little impatient and doesn’t want to wait for the English version, so we watched in French. (Not really all that helpful)
We spent the extra €2 to gain admission to two other places. So our second stop was the War Museum. Yesterday we saw the Normandy beaches and got through the first day. This museum got us from June 7th to August 14th. Bayeux was spared any bombing or shelling. (There are as many explanations for this as there are residents). Either the streets were too narrow for German tanks, or some member of the resistance told the allies it just wasn’t worth it.
Our final stop was the Museum of History and Art which had loads of painting depicting the several victories of Normandy over England, over and over. The disembarkation of Normandy was called Operation Overlord. Our two days in Normandy might be called Operation Overload, but we have a much better appreciation of everything that happened in the Battle of Normandy and how it changed the course of history.
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Tomorrow we are off to the walled city of Saint Malo in Brittany.
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