Our second visit to Honfleur found the enormous
aire de camping-cars only about 75% full, and we easily found a decent place, electricity included. (See
http://roadeveron.blogspot.fr/2013/05/honfleur.html for some background). There was a Dead Battery Incident just after arrival, but a nice French family noticed our plight and lent us their battery charger long enough for us to get going again. We have decided to regard the incident as an anomaly (details on request), and, next day, things were fine. Below are some street-scene pix, few of which, hopefully, duplicate what I posted in 2015.
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I was already beginning to tire of the half-timbered look; at least Honfleur's
is mostly real and mostly old |
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| Last butcher's stall standing on Butcher's Row |
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| Peering within |
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| The Old Basin, a scenic place, regardless of crowds |
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| Different perspective |
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| Street scene |
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| Ditto |
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| Ditto |
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| Let me know when you get tired of the half-timbered thing |
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We should have done it; but too much Impressionism is bad for
your eye-sight |
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| Peg Leg Pierre |
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| More half-timbered |
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One of but a few stone buildings, interspersed... they actually
hold the half-timbered buildings up |
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| St. Catherine's Tower |
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| Inside St. Catherine's; much less festive than in 2013 |
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| The Basin again |
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| Placer mining in the river |
1 comment:
Honfleur used to be one of our favorite towns. We have been there several times...always stayed at the Cheval Blanc, a nice hotel close to the Basin, except that last trip there, we stayed at a B&B a little out of town. The town has changed so much...probably due to Rick Steves telling everyone what a wonderful little place it was. In 2012, we found that all the cute little shops around the basin were now souvenir shops selling I Heart NY cups, and every other shop around the Basin had been turned into a restaurant. Crowds of tourists filled the sidewalks. I was so disappointed. I wanted it to stay just as it was the first time we visited.
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