Camille & Brian's Euro 2009 Wine Extravaganza travel blog

William the Conquerer's Palace

Brian looking out at Juno Beach

The Canadian visitors centre @ Juno

Lunch in Bayeux

A working water wheel in Bayeux

Time to do laundry...no worries there was a brasserie next door.

Walls outside William's the Conquerer's Castle

Moat inside the castle walls i.e doubled moated fortress

Main entrance gate complete with drwbridge and moat

Weapons site in the walls

Effigy memorial to the Patron saint

The story of the Duke's Castle

Governor's House inside the walls

Mayor's house inside the walls

Tomb of an unknown soldier

Church Spiers

 

Prison foundation inside the walls

Foundation of the original building

 

Room in Caen

Typical room refreshments

Cote de Brian...had to buy it

Car ourside hotel in Caen


Hi All: First want to say thanks for all your great comments. Last time we had a contest, where the best comment was awarded a prize bottle from our travel collection. Last time it was a bottle of ancient port directly from Porto in Portugal. Who knows, a special vintage from Champagne this time??

Our hotel here in Caen is interesting (yes you can read all the special meanings into that). Seems to be a favourite of the bus tour set with gobs of folks from different ethnic origins arriving at once. Picture 40 young Japanese, cameras clicking, arriving at the same time as 40 old Scots complaining about the lack of a lift to the 2nd floor!

'Nuff about the folks, onto out travels.

Awesome day...started early and headed into the centre of town to visit the Castle of William the Conquerer (in serious need of a decorator) but they where dealing with waring factions (the french english thing) in the 11th century. Then off to Juno Beach, one of the sites of the D-Day beach landings whezre the Canadian troops where deployed. The day was appropriatly blustery and grey with no one on the beach. The memorial centre is a styalized Maple Leaf complete with an Inukshuk. The only mar in the event, ironically, was an irate German speaking women who didn't like to wait the 5 minutes for the next tour to start. You have to remember that many ordinary German sons and fathers were lost as well as english, canadian, and american soldiers. However the towns where originally lovely beach escapes for the gentry and continue to be so.

We then traveled onto the quaint town of Bayeux for a lovely lunch, poulet Provencal with wine of course, and a visit to the famous tapestry (just going to have to look this one up yourself folks...no pictures).

NOTE: uploaded some pics for your viewing pleasure...need to sort and more to come...thanks for your patience.

Next up Nantes then Bordeaux...as Brian says the real wine.


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