<< Wandering Around Rouen

11/06/26 - Another Part of Rouen

We stayed in the downtown core of Rouen, the touristy part, protected from automobile traffic by retractable bollards. If you are staying downtown, you can get a code to get past the bollards. The bollards in Rouen are steel cylinders in the middle of the street with blinking LEDs. Enter the code and they sink into the earth.

We dropped off our luggage at our hotel, the very comfortable Mercure near the cathedral, and then tried to park in the underground lot near the hotel. If you have ever tried to park in the basement of the Columbia Tower in Seattle, just imagine an underground lot with even tighter turns and lesser clearances.

Despite one of us being a former race car driver, we gave up and left the central city for a more spacious lot near the opera. It was in the retro-gaming and tattoo parlor district a few blocks from our hotel. You could buy wigs, marijuana, business goods and Asian groceries. That Asian grocery store was our landmark for finding the lot.












Keywords: france

Keywords: france