Let's Go Eat
Now it was time for my favorite part of vacation: eating. It was more than an hour drive back to Bayeux where we assumed we might find some sort of restaurant open for business. Naturally, my passengers slept the whole way back. Downtown Bayeux was well-lighted and seemed somewhat busy, but it took us a good 15 minutes of driving around in circles to find an area with some open restaurants. We still hadn't caught onto the fact that the French restaurants didn't open for dinner until after 7:30 at the earliest.
Although ultimately a victor in World Wars I and II, France suffered extensive losses in its empire, wealth, manpower, and rank as a dominant nation-state. Nevertheless, France today is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leader am... ... read more 
