For our visit to the Normandy area, we are staying in Bayeux, another amazing French town with a huge Cathedral dedicated to Notre Dame.
Bayeux is one of the few French towns in the area that wasn't destroyed in the war. It has many interesting sites of its own that we didn't have time to see, including a famous tapestry made in 1070 that portrays the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England.
Whenever we didn't have time to see something interesting we said, "It means we have to come back."
Have I mentioned that some things in Europe are smaller than we are used to in the U.S.--garbage cans, glasses, and bathrooms, although the above bathroom is small even by French standards. It was like being in a phone booth.
In Bayeux, we had one timeout day when we did laundry.
It was a little complicated at first, but we figured it out.
Luke monitors the progress.
This episode remained me of when Chris Ardis and I were in Paris in 1985. It was the start of the fourth week of a month's trip to Europe. The first three weeks we were on a Cosmos tour-- a if-this-is-Tuesday-it-must-be-Belgium kind of trip. It was a rigorous pace. Gabby, our tour guide used to say, "You are not on holiday (vacation); you are on a Cosmos tour." I've said something similar to John and Luke: "We are not on vacation; we are on a pilgrimage." They are excellent pilgrims.
Anyway, by the time Chris and I got to Paris, we were desperate to do laundry. As we searched for a laundry mat, we promised we'd never complain about washing our clothes again if we could just find one. We finally did!
Chris and I were as happy as Luke above, who was also very glad to have clean clothes.
Above, a scallop shell in the Bayeux Cathedral, another sign of the Camino de Santiago.
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