It rained all last
night. It was still raining when we awoke this morning, and after breakfast. So
it was a good job that we had planned that today would be a day off the bikes.
Instead we walked the few hundred metres to the beach front and bought ourselves
a small umbrella at 7 euros each in the hope of some protection from the
incessant rain. The plan was to catch the local service bus from outside the
post office (a short walk away) to Bayeux and to visit the sites there,
including the Notre Dame cathedral and the Bayeux Tapestry.
So we did just that,
arriving in Bayeux around 11:15 we walked to the Tourist Information Office,
boarded the shuttle “train” (a dressed up tractor towing some equally dressed
up carriages) and took the ride to the American War Museum were we watched a
documentary film and shuffled round the exhibits before leaving for the nearby
memorial and cemetery to the British dead of WW2. We then walked back to Notre
Dame and around it before finding a café for lunch at around 13:30. We were now
close to the TIO so we boarded the shuttle again and rode to the Bayeux
Tapestry, jumping of at a convenient stop sign as pre-arranged with the driver.
We joined the crowd seeking shelter from the rain, meandering round the
tapestry before a quick walk to the bus stop for the return trip, getting back
to the B&B around 16:15. As the weather is set to continue raining through
the night and into tomorrow we ate in a local hotel bar and turned in for an
early night.
Total mileage Day6 = 0 miles.
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