Bayeux

After leaving Mount Saint Michael we needed to find somewhere to stay along the way and opted for Bayeux.

What a lovely little town this is, it has the most amazing church with dozens of stained glass windows and it’s the home of the Bayeux Tapestry and also the Museum of the Battle of Normandy.

We had a lovely wander around the old city looking at the different buildings, the church, the mill, canal and waterwheel.

Off to see the Bayeux tapestry this morning. It really is amazing 70 meters long and depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England ending in the battle of Hastings. One of the best preserved medieval artefacts in the world. It is incredible it has survived intact for more than a thousand years.
After the Tapestry we headed for another look at the church. The sun is out today and we wanted to see the stained glass windows in the sunshine.

Then on to The Bayeux War Cemetery, it is the largest Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France. The cemetery contains 4,648 burials, mostly of the Invasion of Normandy. So moving to see all those white tombstone perfectly lined up and so we’ll maintained. Some of the tombstone have no names but still there are flowers around them.Leggi altro