Our bicycle tour starts tomorrow and today we had to travel from Bayeux in the Normandy region to Tours in the Loire valley (@ 3 hours). We were up early this morning and at the corner laundromat by 7:00. By 11:00, we had finished our laundry, had breakfast, toured the Bayeux Cathedral and saw the Bayeux Tapestry, a 1,000-year old work of art depicting the story of William the Conqueror and the Battle of Hastings in 1066. We then checked out of our hotel and started our journey south to Tours.
Tours is a fairly large city and the information we had received about our hotel indicated it was a 10-minute walk to the train station, where we had to return our car and where we would meet our Backgrounds group in the morning. What we discovered when we tried to return our car is that this was the WRONG train station! The train station we needed was OUTSIDE Tours, @ 3-4 miles away.
We finally got the car returned (that's another story in itself) and Rich and I made our way back to the hotel (after 1.5 hours and a number of wrong turns later). Tonight's agenda is to repack our bags (we've bought a few things along the way) and rest up for our first bike ride tomorrow.
Have fun on your bike ride! Hopefully all that good French food hasn't made you guys sluggish. At least dad went for the super nutritional and energy packed banana split. Now you have no excuse on those hills Dad!
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