Bikeride to DDay beaches

Last Friday was the best day i think we've had here. Me and my roomate cecil had the day off cuz i dont have work on fridays, and we took a train to bayeux - which is closer to the ocean but not right on the coast. it is the city that has this famous 70 meter long tapestry. so there are a lot of tourists for a town of only 13,000. but we were wanting a less touristy visit, plus we were cheap, so we didnt see the tapestry and instead rented bikes and biked all the way to the dday beaches. it took us about an hour, but we passed corn fields, small villages, cows, horses, french cafes, locals, and the sun was out and it was just gorgeous. i said ti cecil OUR WE REALLY DOING THIS, is this real? cuz it was just so beautiful, and we were biking in france to the beach! then we could see the blue ocean on the horizon, and we just zoomed down hill into this cute little village called arromanches. It was really an epic journey. We also brought baguettes, cheese, and salami in the bag, as well as yogurt and rice and we had a picnic just watching the waves and all the historic things on the dday beach like old boat parts. Then we put our swim suits on and went swimming - but we were the only ones, i think people thought we were a little crazy but thats alright. we had a sweet time, took so many videos and photos. Then we strolled around the small town for a bit, before riding back to bayeux. it was truly a memorable day - one i wont forget for a while. The nexy day we were tired from our epic journey, so we stayed in lisieux. This weekend we might go someplace, the people in caen want to see us, but cecil and i are quite content not to be around too many americans, and explore stuff on our own. we just laugh a lot - he cracks me up cuz he's really expressive in a sarcastic way. and together we are good cuz we will just dive right in and say hi to french people, try to start up conversations and laugh a lot when we mess up. they are pretty nice though once u try speaking french. anyway thats it for now, classes are nice. i like helping the french students. its really not too hard yet. im also lookin forward to going to london in november in a month, to see uncle john and all the people from christmas that i saw. oh yea an about internet, we found out from someone else that if we use a differnet company it would cost only 20euros for the installation, and 30 euros a month - oh yea plus it comes with phone service so i could call the us for cheap (maybe unlimited), and 30 mins for cellphones free. also comes with a few tv channels, hopefully some soccer! but most importantly internet. the only drawback is its a year contract so i would have to pay for months after i leave, but i think its worth it to get it. plus im thinking of staying til the end of june now, cuz thats when cecil is done with his contract and i could probably stay in our apartment with him til then, so i could still have internet. but im not sure, that would be 9 months instead of 7 months. But I am just loving France so much that i think i might stay, and maybe reapply for the same program next year. Maybe go to the south of france next time :). Bye for now...


The famous bayeux tapestry. We only walked passed the sign sadly. The next time in Bayeux I'm sure we will see it.


In the front you can see the two bikes we rented, and in the back of course 'La Manche' (the channel). This is the Dday beach of Arromanches


baguette + Normandy Beaches + Sun = awesome


Here's part of a huge ship left from the invasion.