Bayeux Might Have a Tapestry But Not the Famous One – part 4 – Bye bye Bayeux

Wrapping it up. We had a bit more time to spend in Bayeux before boarding the buses to meet the ship that had sailed on to Caudebec-en-Caux. If you look at a map, you’ll see that we’d traveled west while …

Bayeux Might Have a Tapestry But Not the Famous One – part 3 – Crêpes et Gallettes

If Three’s a crowd, is six a mob? As I’ve aged, I’ve become increasingly inclined to travel with a group when I travel overseas rather than making the effort to do all that planning on my own. I prefer small …

Bayeux Might Have a Tapestry But Not the Famous One – part 2 – Embroidery

Technically it’s not a tapestry. Taking a temporal leap of a mere 153 years, brings us to 1064 and to scene one of the so-called Bayeux Tapestry depicting Edward the Confessor, then about 60 years old and without a direct …