We left Paris yesterday. After picking up our hire car at Gare de L'Este, we had to tackle a 10k drive through some very busy Paris suburbs, with the added fun of driving on the right hand side of the road with a manual transmission. It was certainly a relief to finally hit the freeways. The speed limits here are 130km/hr which sounds a lot but the roads are so good that anything less feels slow.
We arrived here in Bayeux, on the Normandy coast late in the afternoon. It is a beautiful old city with a wonderful cathedral. Work on the cathedral commenced in 1077, eleven years after the Norman invasion of England.
Here in France it is still light at 9pm so we really enjoyed walking around the town checking out the sights and taking lots of photographs.
We bought baguettes, cheese, ham, tomatoes and a bottle of red wine (14 Euros) and had a picnic dinner in our room which made a nice change from eating in restaurants all the time.
We finished breakfast about an hour ago and now getting ready to drive to Mont St Michel which is about a 100 km drive from here. It was raining this morning but it is now clearing up.
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