We could leave our luggage at the motel while we went to visit the Bayeux Tapestry which was only 20 minutes away by train. It isn't actually a tapestry but fine wool embroidery on nine pieces of linen canvas sewn together with a fabric strip across the top where the numbers for the 59 scenes are shown. The colours and depth of colours are incredible for an embroidery which is nearly 1000 years old. Especially as it hasn't always been treated so kindly as it is now. The ten colours they used were made with just three vegetable based dyes and they used only four different types of embroidery stitches - satin, stem, chain and split.
After we'd been back to Caen to collect our luggage we got the train to Pontorson where we're staying for the next two nights in a cute little terrace house only one room wide. I'm sleeping up in the attic bedroom. Even in bare feet I'm about 10cm too tall to get up the stairs without doing a weird sort of crouching over walk. There was a radio hidden in the attic during the Second World War. Pontorson is just 10km from Mont St Michel which we'll explore tomorrow.
