Cruise from Rouen to the Bouille
One day under the rainy sky of Normandy, a cruise was offered to us by our friends for one of my birthdays (let's forget the age ...)
A getaway in the Seine on the cruise ship aptly named '"The Getaway".
A luxury lunch cruise that took us from Rouen to La Bouille.
Do not expect to see old Rouen along that side of the Seine but rather an explosive backdrop of Norman refineries and industries until arriving at the charming little town of La Bouille.
It can destabilize but it must be said that these buildings are part of our landscape [polluted and polluting]. I lived this cruise as a discovery of contemporary art while I am a follower of Impressionism ...
that is to say that I don't understand much about it but that I try to see in it a certain beauty, something unique.
The sky was dark and often changed colors, I tried to play with it when taking my photos.
The thinning took place on the way back, I was able, like a child, to go out on deck and enjoy this spectacle of modern times.
I also praise the excellent meal and the lovely staff.
Boarding...
We will not enjoy the deck on this rainy day ...
Lunch - cruise for us
Welcomed like stars !
Getting near...
The "Escape" is moored at Ferdinand de Lesseps wharf, opposite Docks 76, near the Bodega
My friends spoiled me once more.
Same company as the Escapade, the Bodega stays more often in the dock
Rain, umbrella, ballad...
Ferdinand de Lesseps Wharf 76000 ROUEN
Details
"On board of our large spaceship I often had to complain about the service, but the cruise is interesting." -Michel Déon/Journal (1948/1983)-
"He took part in all the organized trips: he had made the nile cruise, the Great Wall of China, the fjords of Norway, he ended with the visit of the Montparnasse cemetery." -Denis Langlois/Le Hasard always rings once (2006)-
"Life is like a cruise where the ports visited are the people you hate or love." -Maximes d'Hui by Daniel Desbiens-
"Optimistic, I talk to him about cruising the oceans, with getaways on the islands. Pessimistic, she's talking about seasickness. » -Jean Triboulloy-
"Life is your ship and not your home." - Alphonse de Lamartine-
"The last to board a ship are the first to gain a foothold on the shore." -Chinese proverb-
"The ship that does not obey the rudder will have to obey the reef." -French proverb-
"An eclectic is a ship that would like to work with four winds." -Charles Baudelaire / Aesthetic Curiosities-
"Our soul pulls on our flesh like a ship on its anchor." -Leonce Peillard-
Leopards of Normandy
The emblem of Normandy
The pride of Normandy
Norman leopards watch over Rouen
History and points of view in the link below
When history mixes with industry...
History and modernity with the Panorama of Rouen
Always present even in reflection ...
Did you say "strange"? ... I say "chance"
Looks like a grassy boat...
"When the ship has to sink, the rats are the first to leave it." -Fyodor Dostoevsky / The Demons-
"No advice is more loyal than the one given on a ship in peril." -Leonardo da Vinci-
"A ship should not be tyed to a single anchor, nor a life to a single hope." -Epicetet-
"He who plunders with a small ship is called a pirate; the one who plunders with a great ship is called conqueror." -Greek proverb-
A lonely " Colette"
Industry - Contemporary art
"The history of the industry is the open book of human faculties." -Karl Marx-
"The secret of modern industry is the intelligent use of residues." -Roy Lewis / Why I ate my father-
"Industry is the right hand of fortune, and the economy is the left." -J. Lesueur-
"Social relationships in the industry are like romantic relationships: it's better between two willing parties." -Lord Feather-
"The change of fashions is the tax that the industry of the poor puts on the vanity of the rich." -Chamfort / Maximes and thoughts, characters and anecdotes-
"There are only two ways in the world to rise, either by one's own industry, or by the imbecility of others." -Jean de La Bruyère / Characters-
"Necessity gives industry, and often the most useful inventions have been due to the most miserable men." -Bernardin de Saint-Pierre / Paul and Virginia-
"The whole industry, all the trade will end up being a huge single bazaar, where we will source everything from." -Emile Zola / The Silver-
"Today, everyone poses. Man proposes, woman disposes, industry exposes, trade deposits, sciences make up, and great men rest." -Louis Auguste Commerson-
"Like a bird...."
"The difference between birds and politicians is that from time to time birds stop flying!" -Coluche- Flying and stealing are spell the same in French and are said "voler" . A double meaning in that sentence for the humorist.
"To interpret the birdsong is to hear the voice of love whistling a jazz tune." -Sonia Lahsaini-
"A perfect summer day is a day when the sun shines, a light breeze blows, the birds sing and the lawnmower breaks down." -James Dent-
"We are birds of passage, tomorrow we will be far away." -Gypsy Proverb-
"I have divided the bird treatise into four books: The first deals with wing flapping (rowed flight); The second of the flight by the favor of the wind (gliding flight); The third of the general flight of bats, fish, insects; The fourth of the artificial flight." -Leonard Da Vinci-
Moreover, because the wind, as they say, is not poetry, it is not a reason why poetry does not take flight. Unlike ships, birds fly well only against the wind. But poetry is a bird." -Victor Hugo-
To give the true science of the movement of birds in the air, it is necessary to establish first the science of the winds, which explains the movements of the water and itself. And this science will scale up to come to the knowledge of the birds in the air and the wind." -Leonard Da Vinci-
If you like birdsong, don't buy a cage, but plant a tree. " -Pierre Sakhinis-
"The city crushes the forest to set up its scenery without thinking of the sound of the song of all the dead birds" -Francis Blanche-
Boats on the water ...
America in Rouen
"Since Archimedes the boats have been floating." -Gregory Suave-
"Men of my race come on boats without wings and without eyes." -André Malraux-
"Port. A place where boats are safe from storms and exposed to customs fury." -Ambrose Bierce / The Devil's Dictionary-
"Debts are like rats on a boat without a cat... It devours a boat in no time." -Pierre Djada Lacroix / The Third Walk-
"A boat is useful for crossing a river, but once the crossing is done, it is not necessary to continue its journey by carrying the boat on its shoulders." -Swami Shankarananda Giri-
Left alone...
"We're all rowing on the same boat." -Zenobios-
"It's the pilot who sees far away who won't cause his boat to capsize." -Amenemopé-
Greenery in Seine
"Youth, like greenery, adorns the earth; but education covers it with harvests." - Antoine de Rivarol / From the intellectual and moral man
"During my wanderings in the eternal greenery, I felt like I was reading the universe and the forest was for me the most beautiful library." -Gonzague Saint-Bris / The child of Vinci-
"What could be more beautiful than a French garden? Its straight or gently curved lines, this regularity, this geometric writing of greenery and flowers, this symmetry that flatters the eye and the understanding, this dominated nature ready to hear verses and cantatas. Our gardens, sir, are Alexandrians in music!" -Jean-François Parot/The Honour of Sartine-
"May the valleys become your streets, the green paths your alleys, so that you may look for each other in the vineyards, and come back with, in your clothes, the scent of the earth." -Khalil Gibran/The Prophet (1923)-
It's the day after tomorrow the great immigration. The ecliptic will become a small purple spiral. The earth will have two green buns and an ice chastity belt." -Robert Desnos/Freedom or Love (1927)-
"Should we despise all that does not last forever? Neither the greenery nor the flowers last forever. However, that they are beautiful and, without them, that the earth would be sad, that it would be ugly!" -Congratulations Angers, known as Laure Conan/The Dark Suffering (1919)-
"My heart is so full of love, joy and sweetness Let the ice look like flower and the snow greenery." -Juliette Benzoni/Belle Catherine (1966)-
"I hold you alive in my arms, Nature, Ah! Do my eyes have to fill with shade one day? And let me go home without wind and greenery Don't visit light and love..." -Anna de Noailles/The Innumerable Heart (1901), The Offering to Nature-
"We believe that everything is said, that everything is sanded, that not even a mirage will bring greenery to its desert. A water point that dulls painfully from the depths, arouses a twig. Oases are not born any other way." -Claire Martin/Bittersweet (1960)-
The Flaubert bridge
"I had to cut a lot of bridges behind me. But all these scars, you have to wear them like family jewels. Wrinkles, scars, it's life, you take it with your arms and you take it in the mouth, but that's the way it is, you must not be lukewarm. And it's a famous creeper who says that!" -Pascal Garnier/Wandering Inks-
A lift bridge for the Armada. See link below
You can take your breath away, cut short, a fog with a knife, the bridges, the chique, the whistle, the hair in four, through fields, the grass under the foot. But we don't cut your heart, you break it." -Claire Berest/Bellevue (2016)-
The Flaubert Bridge in motion. Time-lapse video below
"It is good that I force you to build, from a sailboat that will go on the sea, the hull, the bridges and the mast, and that on a beautiful day, like a wedding day, I make you dress up with sails and offer to the sea. Then the sound of your hammers will be hymn, your sweat and your ahans will be fervor. And your ship's momentum will be a miraculous gesture as you will have bloomed the waters." -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry/Citadelle (1948)-
"For if water and fire, the roots of trees and the wings of the wind are able to overcome the largest walls, to crack the Genoese towers and to crack the stone bridges above the torrents, what do they have to do with these lines drawn in pen on paper? Nature doesn't care about the heritage that is claimed to be protected on its behalf." -Michel Bussi/Time is murder-
"She came, she conquered me, little by little, centimeter by centimeter, she climbed my mountains, crossed my rivers, crossed my bridges, convinced my interpreters, bent my spies, foiled my traps, deceived my vigilance, and she won my war." -Julia Kerninon/Attila Kiss's Last Love-
"The Seine carried lumpy patches that stopped at the piers of the bridges and dissolved into firmaments." -Robert Desnos/Freedom or Love (1927)-
"The majestic equality of laws, which forbids the rich and the poor from sleeping under bridges, begging in the streets and stealing bread." -Anatole France/Le Lys rouge (1894)-
"Seine" of Rouen
View on Panorama XXL
"Blue is an endless unconscious dive." -Malcolm de Chazal / Plastic Sense-
"The blue of the sea is limitless." -Santoka / Zen, sake, haiku-
In the background, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Rouen
"Above the clouds, the sky is always blue." -Leslie Walton-
"When I don't have blue, I put on red." -Pablo Picasso-
"He was a snobbish mosquito. He only drank blue(royal) blood." -Jean Cazalet-
"The sky is blue only by convention, but red in reality." -Alberto Giacometti-
"Our body is ephemeral, but our mind does not disappear or change, like the blue sky behind the clouds." -Chi No-
Buildings along the Seine
"It is with the blood of his children that the history of the nation is written." -Samuel Ferdinand-Lop -
"Great men are no longer in the world, they are all in history." -Charles Des Guerrois / Thoughts of Art and Life (1855)-
"The cult of remembrance is respect for history." -Samuel Ferdinand-Lop -
"The books have their history that cannot be stolen from them." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / The maxims and reflections (1749/1832)-
"The greatest good that comes back to us in history is the enthusiasm it produces." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / The maxims and reflections (1749/1832)-
"An event, even a very recent one, can have historical significance." -Grégoire Lacroix / The euphorisms of Gregory, Tome 3 (2017)-
"Each of us is a world unknown to our fellow human beings, and could tell of ourselves a story resembling that of everyone, similar to that of no one." -George Sand / Lucrézia Floriani (1847)-
"Happiness is everyone's fable, and is nobody's story." -Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste / The Universal Dictionary (1800)-
"To face death to live in history is to offer a great price for a drop of ink." -Antoine Claude Gabriel Jobert / The Treasure of Thoughts (1852)-
Leaving the port
"The avenues of daydreaming are the devil's favorite walk." -Julien Green / Journal-
"A mother's caress, a beautiful walk, hours marveled at happy stories affect the whole life." -Maurice Barrès / La Grande Pitié des eglises de France-
"The past is our only walk and the only place where we can escape our daily troubles, our miseries, ourselves. The present is arid and murky, the future is hidden. All the wealth, all the splendor of the world is in the past." -Anatole France / La Vie en fleur-
"The window, in the provinces, replaces the theatre and the promenades." -Gustave Flaubert-
"The homeland is all the walks you can take on foot around your village." -Jules Fox-
"Walking is essentially a way of conversing with yourself." -Chantal Thomas / How to support his freedom-
A *** star meal!
"The gluttony still has the priceless advantage of developing between fellows of the table feelings of indespecant affection, infinitely more indissoluble than the feelings that arise between companions of... honeymoon: no one forgets faster than a lover." -Guy de Maupassant /Lovers and Firsts (1881)-
Our friends had made sure that we were treated like queens
Meal of the caterer Erisay
"Curiosity is a gluttony; to see, it's to devour." -Victor Hugo-
"The gluttony, the sin of the virtuous monks." -Honored from Balzac-
"The gluttony begins when you are no longer hungry." -Alphonse Daudet-
"We're born greedy. The real gourmet is the one who revels in a butter spread like in a grilled lobster, if the butter is fine and the bread is well kneaded." -Colette (1939) -
"The soul of the greedy is all in his palate." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau-
Yes, eaten everything and ...drunk it all !
This is a nice day that ends and that I will not forget.
Thank you to Denis, Marina and Véronique for this very nice gift.