April 5
We started the day by walking to Tourist Information by the Cathedral to see what else we could do today. Turns out, we’d pretty much seen everything of importance yesterday with only one exception. Since attractions tend to close from 12:00ish until around 2-3pm, we went straight to the Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc) museum. Rouen is where she was put on trial and executed on May 30, 1431, so they have several different monuments and a museum dedicated to her.
The museum was very different in that it was a series of movies rather than just stuff to look at and read. The museum is in the building in which the trial occurred, so that was cool, and we moved from room to room hearing different parts of her story. It was very excellent. Given that we’ve been in more museums than we can count in the last 5 weeks, this was one we’ll remember.
Then we had a bite of lunch before getting on the petite train that took us around the city. They have these in many of the French cities, but it was the first one we took. We had the entire 3-car train to ourselves, and the driver even stopped for Peter to pick up a sandwich along the way (he didn’t like his lunch).
After that went shopping to look for a scarf for Peter and yes, it’s still that cold. There were a couple of department stores but since we didn’t want to pay 70 euro (about $85) for a scarf we kept looking. We finally saw what looked like a small Target store and we got one there. It was still more we spent on Lynn’s in Portugal but at least it will help him keep warm.
After stopping for a glass of wine we are now settled in for the evening. It’s only 5pm but Lynn’s doing a small load of wash (keeping fingers crossed everything dries on the rack before morning) and since we’ve got a busy few days coming up, we’re looking forward to a restful evening.
Well, that was our day. Hope yours is going well and we’ll talk soon.