Le Havre

The main reason for calling in to the port of Le Havre was so that most of the boat could go either to Paris or the Normandy beaches for the day.  As we have already spent time in both of these places, we decided to have a lazy-ish day exploring Le Havre.

Le Havre is somewhere that is normally only seen from the back window of a car coming off the Portsmouth ferry.  However, it has a few surprises up it's sleeve, starting with the fountains in the town square. 

There is an excellent art gallery (Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux) that advertises itself as the biggest collection of impressionist art outside Paris.  There is also a modernistic concrete church (St Josephs), fairly ugly from the outside, but containing a 100m bell tower that is lined with an enormous quantity of stained glass that catches the light in a spectacular way.

There was also another branch of C and A for Kate in the town centre shopping complex ...