D-Day bike tour from Bayeux to Caen

Your bike tour takes you from Bayeux to the Overlord Museum and the American Cemetery along small country roads through villages with half-timbered houses and pastures with grazing cattle. The visit of the cemetery is really striking. You continue along the coast to the pretty little fishing port of Port-en-Bessin. Take a stroll around the port before heading back to Bayeux.

From Bayeux you will go through the bocage to the German batteries of Longues-sur-Mer. You continue along the cliffs to the port of Arromanches where you will not miss the visit of the D-Day museum and the circular cinema retracing the 100 days of the landing. Through fields and coastal villages you will go along the beaches Sword beach, Gold beach and finally Juno beach at Courseulles-sur-Mer where the Canadians landed. You can visit the Juno beach center or stroll on the fishing port.

From the port of Courseulles-sur-Mer you continue along the seaside villages and enjoy the long sandy beaches until the port of Ouistreham where the ferries from England arrive. Then you drive along the canal to Caen passing the Pegasus Bridge. You will discover Caen with its pedestrian zone and its magnificent abbeys of Men and Ladies.

You leave Caen passing in front of the Memorial, which retraces very well the dark days of the Second World War. Then you cross the Norman countryside: roads of hedged farmland, cows grazing quietly in their meadows, farms and half-timbered villages before seeing the steeples of Bayeux cathedral in the distance.