The Normandy Bridge or Pont de Normandie as the locals might say in the local parley, having passed under this bridge on ships dozens of times up and down to Rouen and Port Jerome and other scenic spots on the river Seine I got a chance to walk under it the other day and take a few shots. It is too big to catch in one shot from underneath unless you have some kid of super fish eye wide angle lens, so here are a few different angles.
The bridge was finished in 1995 and held the record as the worlds longest cable stayed bridge for 4 years until the Japs built a bigger one, which in turn was beaten by a Greek-Italian project which crosses the Gulf of Corinth, I think it won bridge of the year in 2005.
There is a shed load of statistics about height and width on the net if you are into numbers just Google away!
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