Our bed and breakfast included a wonderful breakfast. We shared it with a nice couple from the US who had traveled to Bayeux the day before by train and who were taking a tour of all the sites with a group during the day. They told us that the train system in Paris was a bit wild, and so they had a bit of a tough time getting to Bayeux. They were very nice and we had a great breakfast with them.
After eating breakfast, we took a walk through Bayeux. We went to the cathedral and wandered through it. It was quiet (and being renovated like many cathedrals we have seen in Europe) and quite beautiful. After walking through the cathedral, we walked through town. The old town was just like it had been centuries ago and was quite interesting.
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| The breakfast spread. |
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| Looking out toward the front from the breakfast nook. |
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| Our bed and breakfast. |
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| The adventurous travelers. |
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| Downtown Bayeux (cathedral to the left) |
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| A close-up of the cathedral. |
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| Inside the cathedral. Beautiful stained glass windows were everywhere. |
We followed a map that Yulia had and found the British Military cemetery in downtown Bayeux. There are about 4,600 buried there from all over the British empire. We really liked the tombstones in the cemetery because they were more detailed. The Americans were mostly young men. Many of the British dead were middle aged and fathers. The cemetery was well-kept and we were very glad to have found it on a quiet morning to have for ourselves.
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| Tombstones at the British Cemetery ion Bayeux. |
After the cemetery, we returned to the bed and breakfast and checked out. We drove to Longues-sur-Mer where there is still a battery of German guns that had been used by the Nazis on D-Day as part of their defense of Normandy. We arrived at the same time as a few groups, but the site was huge and we essentially spent our time alone looking at the site. It was larger than the Ponte du Hoc site with lots of guns and a series of tunnels and ammunition sites that was very extensive.
After we had seen the battery at Longues-sur-Mer, we got back on the road. We stopped to fill up with fuel and to eat lunch at a rest stop along the way. We were surrounded by a group of teenage boys who were there on some kind of a trip. It was fun. Driving into Paris was a bit congested, but we made it to the airport (with the help of our GPS) and returned the car without incident.
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| French Road Warriors! |
We figured out the trains into Paris and made a switch and got onto the subway and made it to our hotel. It was a nice little modern room and the price was very reasonable. We were a block from the subway station and in a quiet neighborhood, so we were happy with the accommodations. We decided to go out and get dinner and get to bed since we were quite tired from all the traveling. We went out at 7:00 and found a restaurant that was open. It was not very full at the time, but it filled up as we were eating.
The name of the Restaurant was "Les Fabricants" and it was Basque food, family style. And it was amazing. We ordered a salad and escargot as appetizers. You can see the size of the "salad" in the picture below. Our meals (I had duck con-fit) also came with salads, which was the same thing just half the size. We left very full, but very in love with Basque cooking as well. We slept well, ready for our standard Parisian adventure the next day.
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