Medieval town of Pont Audemer, France

Wednesday we stayed at Pont Audemer, on the Siene canal and in a loop of the Seine river not far from Caen and Le Harve.

We picked this camping ground from our book as it had three stars and WIFI for internet access. Seemed as good a reason as any! The camping ground was not well signposted and the directions in the book did not help. However we managed to find it eventually, quite a nice municipal camping ground and the staff spoken enough English to get us booked in.

The camp is on the shores of a lake (as many seem to be). During our walk around the lake before dinner, Dorothy discovered a railway line. See what hanging around with Gary for 30 years does to you!!!

We decided to stay an extra night here and go into the town on Wednesday afternoon.

 The camping ground had a walking tour pamphlet of the town in English. We took the self guided tour.  It was a surprise gem of a medieval town mixed with 1960s onwards reconstruction to replace bomb damage from WWI.

There were many original houses with half timbered fronts and quite narrow lanes. These lanes were as they were in the medieval period, excepting that the houses now had electric light and sewer connected.

We found the town enchanting and completely unexpected from what we had seen from the main road around the town that we had taken to get to the camping ground.