Today we will begin our 19 day car journey through France. Our route will take us to Normandy, Brittany, Loire Valley, Perigord, Gascony, Pyrenees, Toulouse-Montpellier, Provence and Marseille. From Marseille, we will take the super-fast TGV back to Paris for a final 2 days there. Today from Paris we drove to Bayeux through Normandy. Normandy gets its name from the Viking Norsemen who sailed up the Seine in the 9th century. They made their capital Rouen, which unfortunately we must bypass - the first day of our journey (to Bayeux) is almost 300 km. On the way, we will meander through the Pays D’Auge. This is classic Normandy countryside - lushly woven fields, wooded valleys, cider orchards, manor houses. It is famous for Camembert cheese and Calvados apple brandy. It’s well known dishes include Homard a
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