Day Eight: Le Havre to Dieppe | Northern France Fully Loaded Cycle Tour 2022
Photos from my nine day Fully Loaded Cycle Tour in September 2022 along the Seine River, Normandy and my second cycle touring trip in France. On this journey I took a mixture of train, boat & cycling and stayed in budget hotels, apartments & campsites and the weather was full of surprises as you will see! each photo has a annotation under it so you can follow along with the journey.
Also on this trip I took a variety of cameras including a 360 camera & a action camera and have made a full length video to accompany these photos! you can check that out here on my YouTube channel (and I have embedded it on the end of each album), as ever, enjoy the photos!
After finding out last minute the night before that there was going to be a train strike and my booked ticket for late afternoon was cancelled I booked the first train out of Le Havre in the morning so was up at 5.30am to catch the first train! here's how you hang the bike on most of the French suburban trains - mines in the middle!Found a empty spot for my pannier bags - the advantages of catching the first train!Arrival selfie at Dieppe railway station - tired but happy I managed to get here and dodge the train strike!These TER regional/suburban French trains are the backbone of mobility for many French peopleRailway strikers begining to form outside Dieppe's main railway stationFishing boat hauled up with a powerful winch in Dieppe's dockyardsI love spotting water towers! and France has some of the best - this one right outside my hotel!A silo can be seen in the distance as I ride through the Dieppe countrysideOne of the beauty's of solo cycling - I can change course whenever I like and that's what I did here to get a closer view of this silo!Looks like the farmer had a private party! found in the bushes of the mention silo!I noticed a lot of small French towns have some sort of well-kept religious monumentI'm pretty certain there's a good story behind the these two portraits on the facade of this wonderful art deco building in Berneval-le-Grand, DieppeThe beautiful town of Berneval-le-Grand (or 'Berneval' for short) and the cliff-lined coast of the English Channel in the distanceI had a small accident with my bike falling over and completely breaking my mudguard in two! luckily I had some duct tape with me for emergencies and managed to tape it together otherwise I would have had a bit of a job on my hands!Information plaque on Camille Pissarro's painting of the view of the cliff-lined coast of the Berneval-le-GrandThe gorgeous view that was the subject of Camille Pissarro's painting in the previous photoMemorial to the Dieppe Raid of August 1942, Berneval-le-Grand, DieppeMonument Naufrage Meknes (Memorial for the French passenger ship 'Meknes' torpedoed in 1940), Berneval-le-Grand, DieppeInformation plaque for the Monument Naufrage MeknesInformation plaque for the Monument Naufrage Meknes and the crew who tragically lost their livesOscar Wilde stayed in a house at this point in Berneval in June 1897Information plaque on Oscar Wilde's stay in BernevalAlthough the house Oscar Wilde stayed in for a time in Berneval is no longer here this is the path he used to walk daily to the cliff's and the house was roughly where that tanned roof house is nowI did plan to stay at this campsite 'Camping Le Val Boise' in Berneval until I changed those plans to stay closer in Dieppe town centre but it does look nice!Berneval-le-Grand or Berneval used to be the playground for the rich and famous back in the days and it still shows with pristine house such as this one - bet the occupants have a good view from that window!The 'pristine' church in Petit-Caux, DieppeThe fanciest street signs I've seen in a village!Another spectacular house in the Petit-Caux commune of Dieppe - all that greenery!Last spot & photo for the day and it's in a big plot of called Camp César in Petit-Caux - Dieppe is in the far distance and the English Channel, after this I head back to my hotel for my last nights stay and something to eat!
