France - Day 4

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This morning we visited the famous Bayeux tapestry. It's an embroidered cloth with a length of a whopping 70 metres! This was unexpectedly interesting. I'm not really in to these things however, we were given an audio guide that explained what was pictured.

It depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England as well as the events of the invasion itself.

Basically the dying king Edward of England sends Harold to France to tell the there battling William the Conqueror that he will be Edwards successor to the throne. Harold returns to England first however and it takes William a while to come back. And so Harold decides to crown himself the King of England. William doesn't quite agree and meets Harold on the battlefield at Hastings and defeats him.

The tapestry was a very nice and educational (in a fun way!) visit. I can highly recommend it :-)

Later we walked to the English cemetery. They got a few tanks there as well.

The English cemetery. There are also polish, Russian, Czech, Arab and other nationalities buried here. Marjolein and I were the only ones here. It was grey, cold and windy.

In town there was a picture show on the wall of a hotel. We waited 40 minutes to enter and then we found out we had to stand another 25 minutes. Our feet were killing us after this so we went back to the hotel.