Year 3 Day 358 “Living the Dream”. Wednesday, 4/24/2024. Day 23 of 28-day European Vacation. – Day 3 in Le Havre France. We had another great Hilton Garden Inn breakfast. Although, today it was more crowded due to a motor coach full of people staying at the hotel last night. The help was running like crazy.
It is cold today. The sun is not out at all, and it is damp and windy. After breakfast we wandered through the local markets. The produce, fish, seafood, flowers, pastries, meat, etc were like pictures on a postcard or in a magazine. They are so fresh and beautifully displayed. Steve bought some chips. Yup another mistake. They are roasted chicken flavor. He is so funny.
We had lunch at Le 7 Cafe. There we enjoyed some good food, good coffee, good beer, great servers, and a friendly cafe puppy dog walking around. As the cafe filled up the puppy was leashed to the coat rack with her toys.
The draft beer served was Leffe Blonde which is a Classic Belgian Blonde Abbey beer from the Abbaye de Leffe brewery in southern Belgium. It is a powerful well-known brand and a wonderful example of classic Belgian beer.
We took a tour bus ride around town in the afternoon. We saw the Yogurt pot/vulcano which opened in 1982 and is a national theatre. This port is at the mouth of the Seine River. We drove by the shipping container art installation by Vincent Ganive. These arches are one of Le Havre’s newest and best-loved landmarks. The artist assembled a string of multicolored shipping containers making up two monumental arches that sit between the city and the sea. Other things of interest we drove by was the eye looking towards the English Channel, the Notre-Dame Cathedral, and St Joseph’s church.
After the bus tour we headed to Frank’s Hot Dogs and had ice cream sundaes.
Are you sure they are dry?
Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking.
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To view the complete daily diary, click here – This starts at Year 1 Day 1: Living the Dream – Deestimes – Make every step of the journey count