Ideal for a circular tour of the Seine Maritime département, this country-lane route links the Seine at Saint Wandrille with the coast, crossing the chalk plateau of the Pays de Caux.
You can put it together with the Seine à Vélo route and the Vélomaritime coastal route (EuroVelo 4) to make an always interesting, and rarely challenging circuit, one with coastal scenery, ancient abbeys and modernist churches, busy ports and sleepy towns.
It’s clearly signposted with a distinctive route logo. Yvetot, the capital of the Caux, has a handy train station.
1: Saint Wandrille The route leaves the Seine in the shadow of the Pont de Brotonne, the third of the modern suspension bridges crossing the lower Seine. Saint Wandrille itself is far from modern, dominated by Fontenelle Abbey – founded in 649 and still an active monastic foundation today. The daily offices are said at times from Vigils at 5.25am to Compline at 8.35pm, but even wandering around the part-ruined abbey is a spiritual experience in itself.
From here the route follows wonderfully…
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