[Home]   Cycling the Seine Monday 24th June 2024 Day 11 – Le Havre And here we are in Le Havre on a fine June day, the Seine a Velo now ridden to an end. End of the Ride A pleasant breakfast at the B&B with home-made bread, jams and cake plus boiled eggs and coffee. Thus fortified for the day we set off just before 10.00 and after a quick downhill ride to the river we caught the ferry back to the right bank. Waiting for the ferry at Quillebeuf-sur-Seine On the ferry It was dry and warm today and mostly easy cycling, just one mile-long hill on the approach to Tancarville to cope with, fortunately with the gradient not too severe so we managed to ride up rather than push. The French, especially French cyclists, often adopt a casual approach to traffic lights and of course when in France... 'It's alright, Andrew, there's nothing coming...' Irate blast of the horn and furious gallic gesture...!!! Well we live and learn, eh. Le Havre is a big town but quite nice despite that - cosmopolitan with a Mediterranean feel on a warm summer's night like tonight. We had an Indian meal at a street cafe on the main gastro street, the Cours de la Republique, then a couple of beers and a game of crib sitting outside at a bar, watching the world go by. Very relaxing. The bar at chucking-out time... Just 28.8 miles today.