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Travel Blogs from Bayeux
D-day
An early start today as we had a 4 hour drive up to Normandy before we even got to our first destination for the day. Not surprisingly in this part of France, all major roads lead to Paris and despite asking Tom to take us another way, we realised too late that we were headed for the Peripherique around Paris. This was the point at which Matt and …
Marche de Port en Bessin et retour..
Ce matin le reveil est difficile, mais nous devons aller a Port en Bessin acheter de la creme fraiche et des camemberts au marche. Puis Steph et Sam doivent aller chercher leurs noix de St Jacques a Courseulles. Ils nous deposent, Ced et moi, en chemin.
Nous faisons alors le menage, ...
Balade a Bayeux
... Redbull, du pommeau, et des petits extras... On joue aussi a un quizz musical avec Sam en DJ et sa musique hyper canon (je rigole), un grand merci a Damien pour lui avoir refile toutes ces perles (je rigole toujours la)...
On se refait une balade sur la plage et dans Asnelles vers minuit...
Me recouche encore bien def...
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Normandy visit begins with a scare
... a clean Kotex donated by another passenger to his wound- to stem the bleeding and reassure him and his distraught wife. They explained that they were residents of Pebble Beach who had resided previously in Lafayette. It was a great relief to listen as the paramedics worked with him- broken French to broken English throughout- and determined that the damage was likely only ...
A taste of Britain in France
... to visit the house of Monsieur Claude Monet. I was sooooo excited and it exceeded all expectations. I had to pinch myself when we were standing in the gardens of his waterlilly series and in his studio.
Everything was smooth sailing up until now and we hit the road to drop the hire car off in Paris. As we approached Paris we went under a tunnel. When we emerged from the other end I got a sudden ...