Tapestry Time!

Bayeux is a lovely little town. It was just what we needed to wander peacefully through it after our giant day of D-Day beach exploration.

Most important item on the agenda? Food! As always.

The next morning we decided to delay our departure to our next destination until we had a chance to see the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Here's Tom trying, as always, to get free water. This pump was probably past its use-by-date.

There's a giant boat in the courtyard to greet you as you enter the museum.

No photos of the tapestry I'm afraid (I actually got so annoyed at a guy taking photos in there that instead of simply glaring at him like I normally would, I told him off).

The boys had a bit of fun in the museum gift shop.

We wandered through Bayeux a bit more before finding a place to eat lunch.

A place with a lovely view, might I add!

Some locals dressed in period dress strolling along the footpath there between Dave and Cass. As they do!

We decided that we had to see more of the cathedral than simply eat lunch near it, so we went to explore it after lunch.

It's a really lovely cathedral.

Outside, a gorgeous little old French car, and of course, more locals in period dress!

We think their clothing choice had something to do with this market that was being set up (but unfortunately for us, not yet open).

We decided it was time to say goodbye to Bayeux then, and walked back to Mulder to move on to our next destination.

Our most immediate next destination was the war museum at Caen, not far away from Bayeux. There's a tied up gun as a memorial to peaceful conflict resolution.

No need for hands up here!

An entire wall in the entry of the museum was devoted to this picture of what the landings on the Normandy beaches looked like. The air full of smoke and debri from shelling prior to the landings, that blocked practically all view of the beach. Pretty powerful!

Entry to the museum is quite expensive, and we were all feeling a little weary after our big day of information the previous day, so we elected to just look at the free things - namely the peace gardens at the back of the complex.

And a memorial dedicated to Nobel Peace Prize winners that had some very funky lighting.

To finish it all off, we had a peak at an exhibition being run at the museum that is an artist's response to Hitler's book, Mein Kampf. She had an original copy of it (apparently very difficult to find), and would tear out a page, read it, and then draw her reaction to the words on the page itself, getting others to do the same as well.

From what I could tell, it looked very interesting.

We decided to move on though, and back to Mulder we went!