France - Normandy
3.Day
29.8.2005 - follow the Seine over Rouen, Étretat, Le Havre to Arromanches-Les-Bains
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The sun comes up over the Seine, vapor lies over the water and it is nearly windless. I make a few photos and get as Deko still my "thickness" to the bank, after the slogan "on a Moppedtourfoto must also a Mopped always somewhere to see be".
Around 8 of breakfasts we French meagerly for 7,50 euro. One must be able to be zergehen that times slowly on the tongue: 15.00 Marks for a bischen coffee, a Croissant, a piece of Baguette with butter and jam. In Germany landlords were already drowned because of smaller offenses in a cage in the Danube. The Seine is offered for it however we takes of it distance on and makes themselves on the socks direction coast.
We drive on small side streets on the Seine along and cross the river then on a ferry (free!). Afterwards further to
Etretat ,the famous bathing resort with the enormous rock window blind is on the left and on the right. It is still very much enterprise, the season nevertheless still goes to at the end of September. Since straight floods is, also the bath enterprise is in full course. We can drive and find however to to the main beach also still place for our Moppeds and the Trike, while the cars despairs the place through-circle. It hands, in order to make still fast few pictures of the impressing a rock and to buy an ice and a few postcards.
From Étretat we drive a little skillfully at the coast to the south to
Le Havre with its refineries and the Renault work to over then deal and then over the
Pont de Normandie to Honfleur over there-change. The ramp to the bridge (actually there is i.e. two, over the port filigrane an elbow bridge with a very high passage for sea-going vessels and an enormous inclined cable suspension bridge over the Seine delta.
However the ramps are an experience, in particular on the suspension bridge. Before us, in the sulfur-yellow vapor of the refinery on a hot day, one behind the other the two elegant suspension towers pile up themselves approx. in an impressing perspective. 200 m highly up. The bridge has a length of 2 km and a span between the columns of 900 m. The passage for motorcycles is our Trike needs free of charge and also nix to pay. Unfortunate that one can hold nirdends around photos to make. It has also nobody remembered also on the Trike to sit down over from there to photograph. Harm!
Then we drive inside to
Honfleur and to a miserable Kurverei land we at the old port. With our motorbike we can take a parking spot directly at the
harbor. Cars must remain outside!
Here likewise the tourist bear raves and quilts which it can. At the bank painters sit and on the other port side are paved the entire dock of the restaurants with tables and chairs and breaking fully. A tip for Fotofreaks: The best time for photos is the early morning, because then the chocolate side of the port with the old buildings lies in the best light. After a rundgang we make on the way after
Arromanche where we in the late afternoon after a nervigen travel by the whole bathing resorts at the coast and an interruption because of a fire-brigade employment arrive ourselves finite. Bernd really thought at the organization of everything.
After the Einchecken in the
Hotel Mountbatten we run immediately to the opposite supermarket and get ourselves which to eat and drink. Then we set before the rooms on the parking lot and vespern first times and pour ourselves the first beer inside. We are in the region Calvados, but but it is still too early.
In the evening we go into a Pizzeria in the proximity of the pedestrian precinct, which then despite recommendation as bad case of pure turns out. Kurt fights the whole night with these mafia-torte. Others - also those to those the menu took - are not much better. For so one night I paid then also still 10 euro without Geraenke. Tomorrow we look for each other another restaurant.
With a walk over the strandpromenade we decide this day. For mornings Bernd has a full program for us ready.
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