Thursday, June 25, 2009

Caen

From Paris we went to Caen. In Caen I learned how to pronounce Caen correctly. Its not what you think, unless your up on your French...

Pretty much the goal here was to see the Normandy beaches. We put up in this city as our base for a night while we sorted out what to do next. This turned out to be worth our while, as Caen had some history too. Mostly destroyed in the Battle of Caen, most of the buildings were new. That is, newer than the 1000 year old stuff we were seeing everywhere else.

A castle, built by William the Conquerer ca. 1060

From the inside, you can see the remains of a moat around the main office.




We climbed around the defensive walls, and took the picture of the town.



This church is doing the limbo.

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