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28 August - Bayeux

Home of the famous Bayeux Tapestry. We stopped here on our way through Normandy specifically to see it.
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The tapestry on display. It curves around in the distance and continues back up the room on the other side. This is a different arrangement to what you would have seen had you visited the tapestry before 1983. The Notre Dame of Bayeaux
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29 August - Mont St Michel

Established in 966, the Abbey of Mont St Michel is a breathtaking sight, looming as it does high above the flat tidal plain of the surrounding bay.
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The view across the causeway to Mont St Michel. Timber roof of a dwelling below the Abbey of Mont St Michel.
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The alleyways below the abbey are intriguing and medieval in character.
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The view from Gautier's leap, where a prisoner is said to have leaped to his death (Mont St Michel served as a prison after the French Revolution) The heavily fortified ramparts surrounding Mont St Michel are interspersed with watch towers. This one is known as Gabriel's Tower
Cloister, Mont St Michel
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Cloisters inside the Abbey of Mont St Michel.

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