Bayeux, 2015

We drove on to old friend Bayeux and found a downtown aire, sort of. There were other camping-cars there and it was free. Half a block away was a laundromat, so we declared Monday a partial administrative day. The rest, we were content to walk around old Bayeux and visit the cathedral one more time. Unlike Caen, not far down the road, Bayeux suffered very little WWII damage. It was the first French town of any size to be liberated; on June 7, 1944. The Allied soldiers were astonished to see the place relatively intact. The Germans had stolen the Bayeux Tapestry, but it was found in the basement of the Louvre and returned to Bayeux.

Street scene

A whole lot of half-timbered; but very old

And thus

And thus; this is the Lace Place, where you can watch
women, old and young, making lace, the old-fashioned
way; I would have taken pix or made a video, but they
were very insistent about no fotos

Bayeux's Liberty Tree

First ever instance of handle-bar mustache

A lot of such remembrances still around

More halfies

But some other, equally old beauties

Rickie-Stevie-approved hotel

A horse is a horse, of course, of course...

Street scene near cathedral