Monday in Rouen. Another grey day. The cathedral is closed until the afternoon, so we focus on the wonderful clock arching over the street nearby and then wander down to the square where Joan of Arc was tried. On being brought to the place of her imprisonment and trial, and threatened with the torture chamber, she responded "I will tell you nothing more than I have told you; no, even if you tear the limbs from my body. And even if in my pain I did say something otherwise, I would always say afterwards that it was the torture that spoke and not not I."
A leisurely lunch in the restaurant Bois de Chenu, followed by a tour of the quirky maritime museum on the river, which was easily located on the map but almost impossible to get to – and well worth the effort to do so – for just the LEGO model of the port!
