Le Havre

[missfran]

We're off to Le Havre at the end of the month to see The Sultan's Elephant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sultan's_Elephant). Anyone else been? Anything we should see while we're there?

[punkdr]

We're off to Le Havre at the end of the month to see The Sultan's Elephant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sultan's_Elephant). Anyone else been? Anything we should see while we're there?

:cool:
How are you getting there and where are you staying?
I'd really like to go as well.

[missfran]

We're getting the ferry from Portsmouth and staying in a B & B near the docks.

I loved the Sultan's Elephant when it was in London, can't wait to see it again.

[HackneyE9]

Only stopped overnight there for ferries going to/from cycling hols in France - from what I remember it was bombed to bits in the war so is mostly rebuilt 60s lowrise - not rough or dangerous but not wildly exciting either.

However, if you're a architecture buff, there's a very rare in Europe Oscar Neimeyer cinema/cultural centre.

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/lehavre/niemeyer.html

[Mrs Magpie]

If you're an architecture buff there's a lot more than the cinema

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1181