Don’t bother with the Bayeux Tapestry
Forgive me for being smug, but I saw the Bayeux Tapestry in Bayeux two years ago. It cost about eight euros, there was hardly anyone in the museum and I also got to drink a lot of excellent cheap wine, eat moules à la Normande every night and visit several D-Day sites, for some mechanised slaughter, rather than the stitched 11th century variety. Give a Gallic shrug, open a wine in a can and plan a trip to Normandy next year We shrieked over the vast, blown-up photos of Charles de Gaulle ‘liberating’ Bayeux, about two weeks after British troops had liberated it, which had been put up ahead of the 80th anniversary.
