FALAISE, FRANCE (MEANS CLIFF IN FRENCH...OH YEA PRONOUNCED "FALL-EZ"), ABOUT 30km SOUTH OF CAEN. HOME TO WILLIAM THE BASTARD, AS HE WAS REFERED TO BY HIS SUBJECTS (I AM CERTAIN ALWAYS WHEN HE WAS OUT OF EAR-SHOT). WE KNOW HIM BETTER AS WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR OR BILLY AS HE WAS CALLED AROUND THE HOUSE. THIS WOULD BE HIS HOME. NOT BAD DIGS. TODAY A BIT OF A FIXER-UPPER. NOT TO WORRY...THE FRENCH HAVE A PLAN.
I MUST SAY I AM A BIT WEARY OF CHATEAU TOURS...ALWAYS THE SAME THING...YOU MOVE FROM ONE ENORMOUS ROOM TO ANOTHER...I LIKE THE EXTERIORS BETTER. AND IT'S CHEAPER. MOST CHARGE ABOUT 8 euros OR ABOUT $11 OR $12. THE OUTSIDES WORK BEST FOR ME.
YEA, A PLAN...THEY INTEND TO RESTORE HIS CASTLE...YEP, STONE BY STONE. AH, TO BE A STONE MASON IN FRANCE TODAY.
BUT SOMETIMES, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, YOU KNOW HOW ONE THING CAN LEAD TO ANOTHER...WELL...LET'S SAY YOU STUMBLE ONTO AN ARCHIOLOGICAL SITE...DAMN...THAT WILL DEFINITELY HOLD UP THE RESTORATION. I MET A GERMAN COUPLE WHO WERE ALSO VISITING THE SITE. THEY SPOKE NO ENGLISH AND I SPOKE NO GERMAN, BUT FORTUNATELY WE BOTH SPOKE FRENCH. WE ALL AGREED THAT THE RESTORATION STOOD A GOOD CHANCE OF TAKING LONGER TO FINISH THAN THE CASTLE ACTUALLY TOOK TO BUILD IN THE 11th CENTURY.
A VIEW FROM INSIDE OUT. FALAISE IS A CUTE SMALL TOWN. ALTHOUGH IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT IN WWII IT FACTORED BIG. IT WAS REFERED TO AS "FALAISE POCKET". THE GERMANS WERE SOURROUND, BUT OFFERED FIERCE RESISTANCE. THE CANADIANS FINALLY TOOK THE TOWN (BY THAT I MEAN FALAISE WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED). LATTER, THE AMERICANS ENTERED THE TOWN TO MOP UP. I TALKED TO AN OLD GUY THAT RUNS THE 1944 MUSEUM HERE. HE WAS 15 AND LIVED HERE THEN AND WAS EVACUATED WITH HIS FAMILY. HE TOLD ME AFTER THE BATTLE OF FALAISE THE AMERICANS DIDN'T NEED MUCH OF A MOP...THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT.
WHAT WOULD WILLIAM HAVE GIVEN FOR EQUIPMENT LIKE THIS?....PROBABLY WOULD HAVE USED THEM AS WEAPONS.
I MUST SAY I AM A BIT WEARY OF CHATEAU TOURS...ALWAYS THE SAME THING...YOU MOVE FROM ONE ENORMOUS ROOM TO ANOTHER...I LIKE THE EXTERIORS BETTER. AND IT'S CHEAPER. MOST CHARGE ABOUT 8 euros OR ABOUT $11 OR $12. THE OUTSIDES WORK BEST FOR ME. 
YEA, A PLAN...THEY INTEND TO RESTORE HIS CASTLE...YEP, STONE BY STONE. AH, TO BE A STONE MASON IN FRANCE TODAY.
BUT SOMETIMES, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, YOU KNOW HOW ONE THING CAN LEAD TO ANOTHER...WELL...LET'S SAY YOU STUMBLE ONTO AN ARCHIOLOGICAL SITE...DAMN...THAT WILL DEFINITELY HOLD UP THE RESTORATION. I MET A GERMAN COUPLE WHO WERE ALSO VISITING THE SITE. THEY SPOKE NO ENGLISH AND I SPOKE NO GERMAN, BUT FORTUNATELY WE BOTH SPOKE FRENCH. WE ALL AGREED THAT THE RESTORATION STOOD A GOOD CHANCE OF TAKING LONGER TO FINISH THAN THE CASTLE ACTUALLY TOOK TO BUILD IN THE 11th CENTURY.
A VIEW FROM INSIDE OUT. FALAISE IS A CUTE SMALL TOWN. ALTHOUGH IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT IN WWII IT FACTORED BIG. IT WAS REFERED TO AS "FALAISE POCKET". THE GERMANS WERE SOURROUND, BUT OFFERED FIERCE RESISTANCE. THE CANADIANS FINALLY TOOK THE TOWN (BY THAT I MEAN FALAISE WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED). LATTER, THE AMERICANS ENTERED THE TOWN TO MOP UP. I TALKED TO AN OLD GUY THAT RUNS THE 1944 MUSEUM HERE. HE WAS 15 AND LIVED HERE THEN AND WAS EVACUATED WITH HIS FAMILY. HE TOLD ME AFTER THE BATTLE OF FALAISE THE AMERICANS DIDN'T NEED MUCH OF A MOP...THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT. 
WHAT WOULD WILLIAM HAVE GIVEN FOR EQUIPMENT LIKE THIS?....PROBABLY WOULD HAVE USED THEM AS WEAPONS.
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