After a good week high up in the Swiss Alps, I am on the road again. Currently, I am in Lausanne en route to Bayeux in Normandy. My re-entry to the travel world has not been without some bumps.
First, Bayeux doesn't really have a youth hostel, so I've been forced to try and book a hotel or B&B. This is a problem since apparently Bayeux is popular this time of year.
I started by emailing a hotel recommended by my travel guide. I want to stay two nights in Bayeux. One day for touring the Bayeux Tapestry and Mont saint Michel and one day for a D-Day beaches tour. However, the hotel could only accomodate me for one night. As I would much prefer to stay both nights in the same place, I emailed another hotel that was recommended. I waited for three days, nothing. Then I emailed another place which responded they had room for only my second night.
Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I sent reservation requests to the original hotel for the first night and this latest hotel for the second night. I also sent the name of the second hotel to complete my reservation for my D-Day Tour. I thought I was done. Maybe not the cleanest foray into a city I had accomplished, but still, I thought I was done.
Key word there being thought.
Come to find out that the second hotel had given away the room in the meantime. Even more than that, what I thought was a tentative reservation for the D-Day tour turned out to be no reservation at all until I provided them the name of my accomodations and the tour had become full in the meantime. Nuts.
So I'm currently trying to work out several options I hope will come to fruition. I think, at worst, I will rent a car, tour the D-Day sights myself, and sleep in the car! (Don't worry Mom, I'm only kind of kidding...)
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