Bayeau

We arrived in Bayeau on Monday. It's closer to the beaches than Caen and will be our home for two nights. The hotel Villa Lara is lovely, right in the center of a very old village. The 11c Abbeye dee Bayeau is gorgeous and the few streets in town are charming. Bayeau was NOT bombed in the Allied assault in June since it contained no German troops or weapons. They consider themselves very lucky. Our guide says that the rest of the Norman peninsula was so heavily bombed that there were no leaves on the trees and no birds. It was silent after the trips moved eastward pursuing the tattered Nazi soldiers. She was born after the so has never seen a time when the trees did not have leaves. As with everyone we've met, the gratitude of the French people to the allied countries of the US, Canada and Britain is enormous.Weiterlesen