It was a lazy start to the day. We spent the morning in our hotel room trying to decide what to do. Should we catch the train to Paris? Should we continue cycling up the coast? Seriously we are the most indecsive people in the world.

As we left the hotel a French guy started chatting to us. He told us all these great places to go. And that was that. Our decision for the next few days decided by a random French guy. Please also note – the entire conversation was in French!

Before leaving bayeux we visited the bayeux tapestry. This is a record of the battle of Hastings all sewn onto a linen canvas. They gave you an audio thingy which explained the details of it. Here is the part where Edward growled at Harold saying “you went to Normandy and didn’t bring me back any camembert!?”

As we sat having lunch in bayeux the wind was strong and swirling around us. I was not looking forward to cycling in it. By the time we cycled out of bayeux we realised the wind was behind us and we were barreling along at 30 kms/hr on the flat with a top speed of 55 kms/hr. And to top it off it was sunny.

We stopped and visited some Canadian war graves at the side of the road.

It was an excellent days cycling. We stopped after about 62 kms. One busy campground was going to charge us 21 euros to camp so we rode around the corner to the municipal camp and it only cost 9 euros. Nice and quiet and very clean facilities.

Cooking dinner and drinking wine from a cup.