Week 3 – Tuesday 16th July – Bayeux – Tapestry and D-Day

Well, we’ve moved on again.  An hour blast across the top of Normandy on their wonderful motorway system, and we are now settled into our next campground, where we are booked for the next 5 days. This is a much quieter country campground, with a restaurant on-site, and only   8ks from Bayeux.

Camping is a wonderful experience, if the weather is right.  If it’s not, we’ll be beating a path to a hotel, but while the weather is good, it is a great exercise in logistics and enjoying the great outdoors, even if you aren’t too far from the nearest toilet and shower, and there is a restaurant on site. The first night is a bit chaotic, as you sort out your life into various small compartments and assigned locations within the boot of the car, figure out what has to come with you in the car each day, and work out how you are going to arrange everything, so that you can go out, get the roof down, keep everything secure in the boot and out of sight, and then arrange your eating arrangements for those times when you don’t want to eat in a restaurant.  Once you’ve got it sussed out, living out of the boot of the car, and making the tent your home is a very rewarding and relaxing experience.  Apologies to anyone who has been expecting a “That is until……” moment – everything is going really well, and we are enjoying our second stint of camping.

Having arrived at our campground, chosen our tent site, let the tent erect itself, and attached it to the ground, we then headed into Bayeux to have a quick recon of the town.  Being famous for its tapestry is really all we knew about it, so we were pleasantly surprised at what a nice town it is, with a very up market main street and a very elaborate cathedral.

But today is a bit of a quiet day, so we’ve done the drive, set up camp, visited the town, had dinner at the restaurant at the camp ground, learnt what really bad French Rose is like (sweet and perfumed - yuk), and a bad French red, but are enjoying being camping again, and are looking forward to a big day on the D-Day beaches and museums tomorrow.