Day Seven: Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Haie to Le Havre | 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!
All packed up and ready to go - leaving my cosy Airbnb (and it's not raining...yet!)Part of my breakfast from a local boulangerie was this UFO green custard filled pastry - was a bit too much custard for me though...The Eglise de Lillebonne (Notre-Dame church)Hotel de ville lillebonneRiding through Tancarville and you can see in top left of this photo on the cliff the 'Château de Tancarville' an 11th-century castle built by Raoul, chamberlain of the Duke of NormandyLooking back over the commune of TancarvilleIt's Halloween all year round at this house!This funny character marks a school children's road crossingThis neat side road is next to the autoroute, exclusively for bicycles, and takes you most of the way to Le Havre from Tancarville'Zenith discotheque' - spotted this as I rolled into Le Havre'Salti'The 'Bassin du Commerce' (trade harbour) in Le HavreInformation plaque on the 'Bassin du Commerce'This decorative fountain displays every ten minutes at the 'Bassin du Commerce'The impressive 'Monument aux Morts' a World War I & II Memorial in Place General de Gaulle, Le HavreThe 'Monument aux Morts' World War I & II Memorial, Place General de Gaulle, Le HavreThe 'Monument aux Morts' World War I & II Memorial, Place General de Gaulle, Le HavreNames of French victims who lost their lives in World War's I & II on the 'Monument aux Morts' World War I & II MemorialDetail of the 'Monument aux Morts' World War I & II MemorialInformation plaque at the 'Monument aux Morts' World War I & II MemorialThe incredible 'Le Volcan' performing arts theatre in Le Havre, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and built over a four-year project (1978 – 1982)Another part of the 'Le Volcan' and the cultural centerView of the Trésorerie Municipale (Government office) from the Point De Vue, Le HavreThis whole area around the Government office is very pleasant with the trams rolling through and the almost brutalist architecture of the tower!This is known as the 'Narrow House' and was designed by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm in 2010Église Saint-Joseph (St Joseph's Catholic Church), Le Havre - Brutalist design by Auguste Perret and built between 1951 and 1957/58A Le Havre tram travels towards me with the Plage Le Havre (beach) in the distanceInformation plaque on the Plage Le HavreWhen I arrived at Plage Le Havre I was met with this amazing view of the swirling clouds! I could just look at that view forever (but I knew what was coming - rain!)The 'Monument LH (Le Havre)' sculpture on Plage Le Havre, designed by artists Lang / Baumann in 2018 and represents the initials of the city (L and H)My 'reached the final destination' moment/photo! apart from one more day in Dieppe this was the end of my journey up the Seine and as you can see from my tired face it was pretty hard going with the weather and even after leaving the beach I got caught in another huge storm! but hey this is what makes the adventure! :DI'm going to leave this one to your imagination...
