Our hotel was 45 euros for the night. I learned a few important things about France.
1. City Center is a defined area, not an actual point in the center of the city. Our hotel was 3 km outside of the city center, this translated into being a 20 euro cab ride from the main train station in Caen.
2. As we all know, you get what you pay for. Our room was cheap, and it showed. The shower was so tiny, I could not turn around in it with out either turning the water off completely, or pushing the handle to ice cold or scalding hot. Needless to say, that made the showers a interesting ordeal.
3. Most French people I interacted with were rude! Unlike the Germans, the French were not helpful,
4. TGV – the French rail system does not like Rail pass holders (more to follow on that one)
We arrived in Caen at around noon, and Bayeux was only another 20 mins up the rail line, so we decided to find our hotel, drop our bags, and clean the traveling filth, and beer stench from our bodies. With clean boxerbriefs on we set out. The only problem is the location of our hotel did not make it optimal to catch a cab, and the hotel “front desk” attendant did not, or would not speak English to us. We set out on foot, remembering the Caen memorial was not far. Twenty minutes of walking, and a few minutes picking lavender, (lavender seemed to be growing everywhere) and we made it to the Memorial. It was a pretty impressive sight, and there was a museum that was 18 euros for entry. My group decided not to pay the entry, instead we asked the information desk to order us a cab, so we can go to the train station, and get to the beach (the entire point of entering France in the first place. Our cab driver arrived, in a brand new looking Volkswagen, and he spoke English. It was a big relief. We told him where we were trying to go, and why.
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