Rugby match to watch on the morning, England v Argentina, probably England's hardest group game and it was close with England wining 13 - 9. England will have to play a lot better than that to progress further after the group stages.
Done with the D Day beaches for this year, today is a day for visiting a town and Bayeux is the one, we have been twice before but we both like it. The first car park we chose was full but we found a very small one just off the ring road, that was practically empty and we parked there. If it had been out first visit, I would not have considered parking there but because we had been before, we knew it was only a short walk into the centre.
Because Bayeux centre isn't very big we did know our way round, well pretty much so but we still picked up a map from the tourist information. Also because we knew Bayeux centre, we looked for somewhere different to walk and from the tourist information, we followed the river, the way we hadn't been before. We took the path down the side of the tourist information, took photos of the waterwheel behind the building and followed the course of the river Aure.
A couple of times on the walk, the path crossed over the rive, we just continued along the path taking photos, until we came to the ring road. We found somewhere to sit for a drink and a rest, then set off back into town, the way we came.
We made for the aere where the tapestry museum is, thought we might have a drink in a bar by the river there but we just ended up walking by. Took photos of the waterwheel there, we have done this twice before but I have never seen the river level so low and I do not think it was from lack of rain.
Last time we were in Bayeux we had a Hoegaarden in a nice pub, as we have done in the past, we though we knew exactly where to find it and as usual we were wrong. Although I was on the same street we though it was, this time Dot had a Leffe and I had a Loburg.
On the way in, I spotted an Irish shop selling beers (mainly French beers though) but instead of buying them and carrying them around all day, I took the chance that we would find it again on the way out. Luckily I did and bought more than I should have, the bag was very heavy on the walk back to the car.
Started the night back at the site, sat out drinking the beers we bought in Houlgate yesterday (the beers from today were for taking home), but after a nice warm day, it cooled down early and we had to move inside.
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