Building Bridges (well, crossing them)

Yikes, I’ve reworked the route again!
Yes, I have been worrying over the early part of the route in France and trying to find a better solution. I chose the route initially because I was going to use a GR for much of the way. Of course, GRs are designed to lead you through the best bits of the countryside rather than simply get you from A to B efficiently so I began to shave off corners, cut across land to avoid lots of windy bits, etc.
Then we decided that it would be a better idea to strike across country to Chartres instead of Paris partly because the route would be free of a lot of the heavy industrial stuff and partly because the 1946 walk went through Chartres too. That was fine but getting across the Seine early was an issue. I haven’t mentioned it on the blog but that river is a pretty big, meandering old thing with a limited number of crossings. The first two take you across at Honfleur and Tancarville. The Honfleur crossing looked impossible by foot and, although the Google maps people claimed it was possible to walk across the Tancarville one I have not been able to confirm this.
Also, the roads and paths just made it all a bit too difficult and I was beginning to wonder if we would have to get a bus across the bridge.....
After doing that research I have made a simple but very good change to the route which solves a lot of these problems!
We will be going across the Channel over night from Portsmouth to Le Havre, will have breakfast in Le Havre then get a bus to Honfleur where we will start out walk! It pretty much cuts out all of the nasty stuff, keeps us walking in lovely rural spleandour and is a bit more direct, too!
One simple bus ride at the beginning makes all the difference...phew!
Just thought I would let you know.