Uggh

I didn't post this yesterday because I was holding onto hope that things would work out. There were two things on the agenda while in Bayeux - the D-Day sites and a visit to the famous abbey of Mont St Michel. The hotel that we are staying in has a shuttle that makes a day trip to Mont St Michel and I made a reservation for Monday the 18th. When I made our plans for the D-Day tour I decided that Monday would be a better day for that because we would be less tired and it would require more of our attention. I do remember contacting our hotel via the internet to request a change to Sunday and then crossing this portion of our trip off my list of things to plan.

Upon check-in yesterday (Saturday) we determined that they had not gotten my request and we were double booked on Monday. Calls were made and there was a possibility that the D-Day tour would have two openings today because of the rail strike. I checked back later in the day when the nice woman was gone and a rude man was on. The D-Day tour did not have any Sunday openings (and neither did the Mont St Michel shuttle). He chewed me out for canceling the Mont St Michel trip while keeping the D-Day trip (I explained that I was going to try to get to Most St Michel on our own) and was not very helpful. What followed was my attempt to find any way to get to Mont St Michel on our own. The hardest part is that car rental places both here and in Caen are closed on Sunday. The only other possibility is taking a train to a small town that is 10km from the Mont and then paying 28 euros to ride a bus for 15 minutes to the Mont (not sure if that 28 euros is one way or not) but, perhaps because of the strike, the first train to that town arrives at 1745 - that's not cool since it closes at 1800.

We got up early this morning and presented ourselves in the lobby just in case someone had to cancel last minute but no such luck. So, I am super bummed to not see Mont St Michel - maybe we will make a day trip from Paris. We now have a very low-key day so maybe I'll go back to the tapestry and get that postcard after all. Otherwise we are going to watch a movie (it is pretty cold outside this morning) and fart around town today.

Ta ta for now!