Dunkerque et Bayeux

The French are not friendly. Just aloof. I have spoken French to a few and they reply in English. I suppose this is to be nice, but it sometimes feels condescending, or at least prohibitively impatient. Dunkerque itself is industrial and not very scenic. 

I don’t speak French laundry. I am glad the owner came right after I put in my wash bc I had put the soap in the wrong slot. I have been trying to speak French to people, but they reply so quickly I can’t understand very well so they speak English back to me. Bayeux is crawling with Americans. And we are very annoying. H thought we would be speaking a “secret language,” but not only do most of the French people speak English, but there are mostly native English speakers here. I don’t know if the English are bi or tri-lingual or not. I am guessing they are much more than Americans.