With Riviera from Paris to Normandy
on the
Seine
Boarded in Paris and set sail for Les Andelys the next morning
Les Andelys, a small town dominated by Château Gaillard built by Richard the Lionheart in the 12th-century to defend Rouen from the French.
ROUEN. Capital of Normandy. Son et Lumiere at the Cathedral and a walk through the city. Joan of Arc may also have been medieval but the church dedicated to her is anything but.
We moor in the pretty town of Caudebec-en-Caux.
The Bayeux Tapestry. A 230-foot-long tapestry extremely well displayed with commentary.
And onto the D-Day landings. First the museum and then the remnants of the Mulbery harbour.
And the War Cemetery which contains 4,144 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 338 of them unidentified. There are also over 500 war graves of other nationalities, the majority German.
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The British Normandy Memorial was unveiled in 2021, the 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings.Images of the Memorial and a view to Gold Beach, one of the five main landing sites on D-Day. Around 25,000 British troops came ashore on this one beach - 400 of whom didn't even get off the beach.
Honfleur.
very picturesque. The timber church of Sainte-Catherine, which looks like a ship upside down, was constructed in the 15th century by shipbuilders. The belfry is across the road.
GIVERNY and VERNON. First to Giverny to visit Monet’s garden and house. Monet's art has led to thousands visiting his garden which is pleasant but nothing special!
Unusual sculpture; the item higlighted in front of the hotel is a bug hotel! Bridges and rivers don't always get on. Only a few piers left of this one.
Last day. A bus tour of the city - or a small part of it. We stopped at the Eiffel Tower and the Place de la Concorde. From the itinary I see we saw some other well known buildings! The last pics we squeezed in before departure. The statue of Liberty was given to the people of Paris by the US Paris community three years after France gave the big one to USA.
