day 5 one in the eye for planning!

Up early and dodging breakfast to get to the railway station I can't find which platform is the right one for Bayeux! My old go to app for trains in the UK told me everything! Brilliant! Straight into the train and a quick check on the Bayeux tapestry museum just to realise that it doesn't open until February!!!! Major planning fail! 

Hence the appropriately cheesy title for today! 🏹 For which I won't apologize! 😄

I decide to wander, something I'm good at, at least!

There's a river and port here so I wander the port to find a Sunday market is open! 

There's a pleasure in being almost mute in a crowd like this, I guess you just focus on looking rather than looking and listening, certainly meditative! 

Inevitably food draws me out and I purchase some Nutella crepes then some French sausage for the road (it won't go off).

up what I assume is the main road dodging trams cycles and cars I get to William the conquerors chateau an impressive lump of what appears to be limestone! I would have thought to soft for a castle?

inside the place is a building site! But no health and safety rubbish here your still free to wander around the majority of the place including the walls giving a good look over caens roof tops!

Heading out from my castle wander I meet an old chap turns out he's an Anglophile! With a good understanding of English! We got chatting and he shows me around the back of the closed cafe/ information building to look at a statue installation! Currently being erected it was built by a now dead Chinese man! It's called the 'malediction of the animals'

he told me the story of two of these.....

if multiple people dream of this one there will be a flood! 

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and if multiple people dream of this cow/man there will be a tsunami!!

The artist also has an installation in the Loire river that's only visible when at low tide....a 150 meter long serpent!!!

Back to reality of the day and I'm wandering the streets in the old quarter (a small quarter since the city was largely levelled during ww2!)

What there is is nice tho! 

Blindly wandering on I enter the Abby St Etienne, with few lights inside and the smoky pall of incense from an earlier service I wander in hushed appreciation.... 

tho completely missing for a while the centerpiece of the Abby..... William the conquerors tomb!!!

Glad my wanderings found this! Completely makes up for missing the Bayeux tapestry! 

from here I wander indirectly back towards the hostel passing the cleanup crew clearing the remnants of the market and back around the docks, a quick clean up of myself and clothes

and I go to the bar for another one of their incredible pizzas and a pint

Sitting on the next table is another Brit! (Byron) We get chatting and he's also travelling he's looking at 18months for his trip at estimated expense of 30k..... Well that bodes well for my own expectations of cost! 

Off to sleep and prepare for another day!.