Psst. The SNCF website doesn't want you to know this! From Rouen, take a 2hr train ride to Caen (careful..some routes are almost 4 hrs). In Caen, catch one of the frequent 20 minute trains to Bayeux. The old part of town is a bit of a walk from the train station. There is a local bus, but we opted for taxi (6 euro to our B&B near Place Charles de Gaulle).
Bayeux
. Best known for it's famous tapestry, this is a lovely little medieval market town, great for walking. It was the first town liberated after D-Day, and one of the few towns not heavily damaged during World War II.- founded as a Gallo-Roman settlement in the first century BC under the the name Augustodurum
- largely destroyed during the Viking Raids of the late 800s but rebuilt in the early 10th Century under the reign of Bothon
- Bayeux Cathedral: original home for the Bayeux Tapestry
- Bayeux Tapestry: located in a former convent, the audio tour gives you easy to digest information as it keeps you moving along the 230 feet (70-meter) length of embroidered linen cloth recounting the events leading to Norman victory over England in the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The tapestry is one of the few surviving documents of general lifestyle during this portion of the Middle Ages. No photography permitted. (Or needed really, with all of the pictures available elsewhere.)
BBC video about the tapestry | nice animated version of the tapestry
To pause the slideshow and
show more information about a specific photo (if I added more),
put your cursor over a photo;
single-click to bring up a larger version. Voila!
show more information about a specific photo (if I added more),
put your cursor over a photo;
single-click to bring up a larger version. Voila!
All photos 2010 by L Gunter
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