On my way home

...being extremely tired after a night on a floor on a six hour ferry I needed to stretch my legs. It was eight in the morning when I deviated to a town called Falaise, which was just waking up.  On the ferry I had read that William the Conqueror had been born here, so I set off with my camera to the castle on a crisp and sunny morning.
A falaise is a steep rocky escarpment caused by erosion. With no time available I didn't view the chateau on the falaise at FALAISE from different angles.
In 2011, it was the 1100th anniversary of the town celebrating the birth and history of Guillaume le Conquerant...it is worth going to that link to remind us of a slightly different version of history than that which for example I was taught at school! It would be exciting to be at the planned events.

I saw the unfurled Bayeux Tapestry about 15 years ago.. stunning... I was in awe... at that time there were few people and so one could walk back and forth checking the images. Probably in my attic are photos and prints!!!
The Chateau Falaise is evidently similarly built to that of Corfe Castle, which I drove past on my recent travels and would dearly have loved to stop and be a tourist but we were on a see-the-sea mission! Shades of Chateau Angles sur L'Anglin.

It is also similar to the well-preserved Norwich Castle, which I know well, as my daughter lives in the city and it was my nearest city when I was occupationally resident in UK - an ancestral home... um... not the castle but an East Anglian seaside town!