kerouac

I wasn't going to bore you people with my trip to Cherbourg, since nobody ever goes there, but things are so slow, I figure you can waste about 90 seconds glancing at my report on my visit to the Cité de la Mer: http://tinyurl.com/28dr4bz

Jean

"... nobody ever goes there..." I've been to Cherbourg!! Well, for only 18 hours or so more than 20 years ago. Does that count? Your hotel looks suspiciously like the one we stayed in but with a much different paint job.

I really enjoyed your photos of the Redoubtable. Thanks for posting.

kerouac

The hotel was the Mercure in the past and now it is the Marine (but still part of the Mercure chain).

jamikins

I know this town from the book Pillars of the Earth - its where Jack Jackson's father is from!

bookchick

Fascinating photos! (I think you're probably right about the galley, too. I've been on American military watercraft before, but never submarines.) Nice photo of the "measurements" on the outside of the hotel, too! (Very funny IMVHO.)

BC

annhig

no, never been there.

thanks for sharing it with us.

now i don't have to!

Jean

Yep, that's our (formerly) Mercure hotel!

LouisaH

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

PalenQ

Nice pictures of the grand old Trans-Atlantic ship terminal - must have been glorious in days when it was a buzz of folk departing for the New World, etc but a shell of itself now )or at least a few years back when i traipsed thru it)

That is the fascinating part of to me an otherwise blah Cherbourg - been there several times and always think that this is one of the worst cities in France - no doubt in part to being blitzed in the war - nice natural setting but blah buildings IMO

But thanks for those nice industrial/rail/ship terminal photos!

kerouac

<i>Nice photo of the "measurements" on the outside of the hotel, too!</i>

Through a strange coincidence, Cherbourg suffered the worst floods in 60 years this week and the downtown area had 1.50m of water in the streets! (Huge amounts of melted snow flooded the river, and high tides prevented the river from emptying into the ocean.)

There is no train service to Cherbourg for the next few days because the tracks are still underwater.

Nikki

Thanks, now I don't have to stop off in Groton, which I've only passed about a thousand times with a fleeting thought of taking a look at the Nautilus.

But where are the umbrellas?

kerouac

Just a reminder in case anybody is going in that direction.