Tag Archives: Bayeux Tapestry
All About The Cloth
When I travel I try to balance what I see. There are must-see sites like the pyramids, but you can learn as much about history in places that are not on the beaten track. Today though, one of those”must see” places that I wrote about in 2014. When it all boils down to it, it’s […]
Not Your Average Cloth
Welcome to re-run time. Some of my favorite posts, mostly older and travel related, while I myself am on the road. While I am away I am busily writing new material which will start appearing here when I get home next month. I’m already looking forward to sharing the new material with you and hope […]
Bayeux Tapestry II
I must admit I didn’t get his name. Vivian did though. In fact she spent more time talking to him than she did looking around the rest of Bayeux Cathedral, and we were in the building for more than an hour. If I remember correctly, he was a retired baker who had decided to make […]
The Bayeux Tapestry
When it all boils down to it, it’s just a big piece of cloth. But they built a multi-story museum to hold it and tell its story because it is no ordinary piece of cloth. The Bayeux Tapestry tells the pictorial story of William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. It […]
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