Even though Rouen is the third largest
port in France, it is 120 km from the sea. So now we start on our long
way back on the river Seine, towards the sea again.
Most of our passengers visited the
charming old center of the city – some by participating on our
excursion Rouen City tour. Both William the Conquer and Joan of Arc
died in this town, which Victor Hugo called «the city of a hundred
spires». The most impressing of all: The Cathedral of Notre -Dame.
The change between low and high tide is
dramatic here in Rouen. It forms a tidal bore, which is a large
movement of water formed by the funneling of the incoming tide into
the river. In due to this, our gangway – which was meant to be
open all night for passengers wanting to discover the nigthlife of
Rouen or Paris – had to be closed in one hour the time around
midnight.
Early this morning, there was an
excursion to Giverny and the Monet Museum. Who would not have wished to own such a wonderful garden as the French Impressionist Claude Monet?
