Bayeux

Like Giverny and Etretat I had wanted to visit the Bayeux tapestry for as long as I can remember. As a young girl I read copiously during the summer months especially and then read a great deal of not only history, fiction, and art history but I was especially interested in European history and culture and therefore knew about a great many places I would wish to visit very very much. Bayeux was one if them.
This past summer I was finally able to and left Bayeux feeling as though I must return again and again. Hopefully I shall.
It takes a great deal of time to take it all in and as you are shuffled through almost as though you were at a blockbuster exhibition in a great museum and everyone wears earphones and that sets a certain pace, you can not easily go against the flow or even with it for that matter. I did not wear earphones because I really wanted to look and see for myself what was there. What I had not expected and what amazed me the most was how ANIMATED the figures were. It was alive and practically moving. There was also a great deal of humour in the depictions and scenes. I will show you above what I found . DO GO IF YOU CAN! Read up on it before so that you do not need the earphones and go early in the day if you can.
As a predecessor to comics and animation it is high up there for inspiration! Highly recommended to my friend Lamar!