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Sep 30, 2008
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Rouen is one of the greatest cities in France and surely one pearl of the gothic architecture. All around the city there are numerous gothic buildings, churches, palaces. This is probably the most...
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Sep 30, 2008
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Rouen cathedral is one of the nicest cathedrals in Northern France and the tallest church in the country with its spire at 141 meters. It has for a few years in the 19-th century been also the...
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Etretat is some 20km north of Le Havre and if you’re going to and from the ferry port and need to spend the night then this is a much more pleasant option that reinforced-concrete architecture of...
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Fécamp is a pleasant enough town on the French channel coast about 30km north of Le Havre and I’d recommend a visit if you’re a few hours early for your ferry because it is here that the...
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The impressionist painter Claude Monet moved with his family to the town of Giverny in the 1880s. He spent the rest of his life at Giverny, and it was here that he created his famous studies of water lilies that are shown in the Orangerie in Paris. To visit the house and garden is to literally...
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Joan of Arc Museum
The small museum quickly takes you through Joan of Arc life span in a matter of an hour leaving out many details, which encourages you to learn more about her life. At the...
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ABC Bookshop
11 rue des Faulx
76000 Rouen
The shop is one of the few English bookshops in Rouen. Although it is small, it is filled with my useful and entertaining books...
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Dinner
Punjab
3 Rue des Bons Enfants
Open 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.-11p.m.
Punjab blends french cuisine and culture with india's to create a warm welcoming...
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Day One: Sunday
8 a.m.-2 p.m. Le Clos (market)
Place Saint Marc
Smells of fresh fruits, vegetables,fish,cheese, sausage, and flower drift through the air as my...
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Jean d'Arc museum is situated on the Old Market Square (Place du Vieux Marché). You might be really surprised when you see the plate with name of the museum on a tiny old but colorful building...
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Rouen is a charming French city. I came there tracing Jean D'Arc story but found much more. If you are fond of Claude Monet then by one look at Notre-Dame de Rouen cathedral you will recognize the...
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Some people call this sight a natural world wonder. This is a big rocky hill standing on the island in Atlantic Ocean and connected to the land by sandy trails and a special bridge kind of way. When you drive from some cities and start to approach Mont-Saint-Michel is appears like an oasis in the...
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The American Museum of Art is just a few hundred metres from Monet's house and garden in the village of Giverny. Giverny is a little artists colony outside Paris that has attracted, among others,...
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