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May 2025 (Part 18)

France Trip: Day 7: Caudebec En Caux

We passed some interesting countryside on the way back from visiting the abbeys.

We then had a decent amount of time to wander around Caudebec before dinner.  We headed into down, roughly headed for the cathedral and looking for a place to buy some pastries maybe, or just a soda.  The cathedral (officially the Église catholique Notre-Dame à Caudebec-en-Caux de Rives-en-Seine) was constructed during the 15th and the early 16th centuries.

Simply a stunning building.  Sad that only a handful of our fellow passengers made the couple block walk to see it.

The statues on the outside had clearly been eroded by the weather over the last 500 years.

We had the inside all to ourselves.

Looking back toward the entrance, there was an exquisite organ.

There were side chapels dedicated to saints.

Loved the inlaid stations of the cross.

Back outside, we headed around the structure.  Saw a huge bee nest up high.

There was a small garden near a stream channeled to run through a square.

Time to wander a bit

Back at the dock.

We also checked out a couple bikes and went for a ride along the shore.  We headed up-river first, but turned around when the bike path ended, so went down river for a while.  Upriver we found the Monument to Latham 47.  This memorialized a rescue attempt made in 1929 to save a crew of an Italian airship who were stranded on an ice flow after flying back from the north pole.  A rescue expedition left, making many stops along the way, but crashing somewhere en route.  The few survivors of original aviators were eventually rescued by a Russian trawler.

Naturally we found some bees in the flowers in the garden near the dock.