I did not intend to go to Rouen. I'm glad I did. It is pretty and rich in history.
It has more cathedrals per square inch than anywhere else I have been. The one pictured was the tallest building in the world between 1876 and 1880.
I busk by the ruins of the building where Joan of Arc was executed.
I find a quote on a sculpture
'O Jeanne, sans sepulchre et sans portrait. Toi qui savais que le tombeau des heros est le coeur des vivants' O Joan, without a sepulchre and without a portrait. You know that the tomb of heroes is the heart of the living. - Andre Malraux.
Drunk French youths buy me a chocolatine for breakfast, and give me the nickname 'solamente' (solitary)
