We never got around to finishing our French blog - probably because it was all pretty anti-climactic after the idyllic days spent in Normandy. We drove to Rouen on a motorway, it rained pretty much non-stop, we stayed in a modern hotel with all mod cons; our own toilet and everything! (The Ibis, on the riverbank - would happily recommend it; underground parking, big quiet rooms, walking distance to the centre). So it couldn't have been much more different. Not all bad of course - the centre of Rouen is pretty cool, even if the outskirts could be any industrial city anywhere in the world, and we did some nice bars and restaurants in the narrow, cobbled backstreets, gazed at yet another massive, awe-inspiring cathedral, and went to a Sunday market with a decidedly cider-orientated product
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