Cardinal Rouen

So I must admit that by the time we arrived in Rouen we were kind of sick of looking at churches and castles and all that other old French town stuff. Fortunately it was a really nice day and we wanted to walk around a bit. The Cathedral in Rouen is absolutely amazing and still managed to impress us with all its little statues lining the walls. The city is modern and new looking and the main streets are big and busy. We ...

... south west to Paris. The plan is to visit the villages on the river on the way to Rouen, and are rewarded with their beauty.

We arrive to Rouen late in the afternoon. We eventually and somewhat tentatively settle on a park on the riverside by some docked barges being used as houses.

Kim cooked up gourmet hamburgers which was washed down ...

... is not a traditional church because it is built in a way that is supposed to remind you of how she died, it looks very modern.
I also booked my train ticket for the next trip which was interesting because she couldn't speak english, however I had written down what I wanted and it was sipmple enough although I had to catch a train later than I wanted for my eurrail pass to be valid. It is more difficult to travel in France; firstly because you MUST ...

... way when bigger trucks passed by. Back in Rouen we visited the towns Gothic cathedral and tried to go on a tour of the city but it was the end of the day and no one else was going so the tour got cancelled. We went from shop to shop buying ingredients to make a sandwich. What started as a baguette turned into dinner after visiting a butcher shop, a produce market and a cheese guy (I will find out the tecnical French name for that before we leave the country.)

... Monet was an emerging artist in Paris when he grew tired of the grey city and decided to move out into the landscape to experience not only the natural colors of the land but also the effects that light plays upon them. His lilies are probably the most recognized and although the numerous paintings of them are a bit repetitive, they all look very different when studied. He also did the same light studies on his flower beds, hay stacks and the occasional building.

The ...

... I dont know much about it all but I find it pretty! Chris took all the pictures of the building from the outside. It was a great day and the sun was shining making for sum beautiful pictures. The streets are fun to walk around in the area because its the fabric district and there were fun tourist shops all over. We walked through Place du Tertre which is an area for artists to paint for the tourists and sell their work. We even walked ...

... toilet.  Well, not a toilet.  

During the week he also tried to acquire a car for us so we would have a car for the trip and beyond.  A friend at our old local pub, John, new a guy who could get us a great car for a good deal.  So Kevin started talking with him and it came down to a black 1997 volvo S70 and a 96 Rover.  Both sounded good, but we were leaning toward the Volvo.  So knowing there are a lot of expenses around a car in England, I started to look ...

... in our apartment. The hardest thing to find at the store was Peanut butter. Hmm, what do you do when it's not next to the jelly and nutella? Kyle asked someone and found a very pricy jar in the import aisle from Africa. We also didn't realize that the milk we purchased wasn't skim...or even 2%, it was 50/50. And this is no mistake to the French, Kyle asked around at work and found out that even with cereal, the French take their "milk" with 50% cream. It's also funny to note ...

yes i left London,no i'm not in an exotic country (yet) but in...Rouen. ha,Rouen...what to say about it...well,nothing.hasn't changed since June,won't change in December either... This is just a pretext to state my new mantra (thank you Leah,James,Copey and Dare:) i'm wearing it quasi-tout le temps .....and i already miss London SO much......mfff

... but they were. As it turned out the Cathedral, was the one painted by Monet, and some computer wizz had designed a light show that used the entire front of the Cathedral as the canvas. Two hours later and 50 photos (which were ruthlesslty culled) we went to bed. The show was really incredible and played off his three paintings.