Honfleur, 2015

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.

I was already beginning to tire of the half-timbered look; at least Honfleur's
is mostly real and mostly old

Last butcher's stall standing on Butcher's Row

Peering within

The Old Basin, a scenic place, regardless of crowds

Different perspective

Street scene

Ditto

Ditto

Let me know when you get tired of the half-timbered thing

We should have done it; but too much Impressionism is bad for
your eye-sight

Peg Leg Pierre

More half-timbered

One of but a few stone buildings, interspersed... they actually
hold the half-timbered buildings up

St. Catherine's Tower

Inside St. Catherine's; much less festive than in 2013

The Basin again

Placer mining in the river

14 Juillet And The Pont Du Normandie

We spent the 14th of July at the aire in Le Havre mostly, resting, reading, blogging. The evening's fireworks were held on the plage, a kilometer or so away, so we walked about half-way there and watched them in a nice harbor-side park with all the locals. The show started at 11PM. Fun to watch, although not Paris nor the Tour Eiffel. We'll always have Paris. 

Thus; I'll put a video on YouTube sometime

Next morning, after the usual decampment routine, we drove
up the river through the rest of Le Havre, the port, to the
great Pont du Normandie, crossing the Seine, one of the world's
great bridges; above we are on the high fly-way leading to
the bridge; I always encourage Vicki to take pix on crossings
like this

Approaching the bridge

Ditto

Climbing...our poor little 1.9 liter turbo diesel had to do it in
2nd gear

I know I can, I know I can, I know I can...

The Pont du Normandie from Honfleur; it is a "cable-stayed"
brdige, not a suspension bridge; highest such in Europe

Le Havre's Andre Malraux Museum of Modern Art

The MuMa is the largest collection of Impressionist works in France, outside Paris. Michelin takes scant notice of it, doesn't get its name right, but then gives it two stars. Go figure. We spent a few hours there and were quite impressed. Anything named for Malraux should be superb. Just a smidgeon of the wonderful collection follows...

Striking building, right on the harbor, calculated to make the
best use of the light so studied by the Impressionists

Entrance

The light is great, and you can get this close to some of Monet's
Water Lilies and other master works

A Pissaro, something about the harbor at Le Havre, rising tide

Monet, Seashore at Fecamp

Monet, Winter Sun, Lavacourt

Pissaro, Apple Trees and Poplars at Sunset, Ergny

Sisley, The Seine at Point-du-Jour

Paul Gaugin, Landscape at Te Vaa

A whole wall of cow studies by Boudin

Another whole wall of Boudin, some studies, some finished
works of a master

Like this Woman in White on Trouville Beach, 1869

Or Cliffs at Etretat

Or The Harbor at Honfleur

Or The Bassin de Commerce we saw before

Lacoste's Snowy Landscape in Paris

One of several Courbet's, Landscape at Ornan

Seashore at Palavas

The Wave

Renoir's Portrait of Nini Lopez

Monet's The Seine at Vertheuil

Renoir, The Pines in Cagnes

And mixed in with all the others, Fantin-Latours,
a few Delacroix, and more, is this Ribera's San
Sebastian; great museum, only a hundred miles
from Paris! No crowds!

Le Havre's Eglise St. Joseph

The Church of St. Joseph was built between 1951 and 1957, and, as Michelin says, is typical of Auguste Perret's style. Sober and reinforced concrete. The interior is "monumental and impressive." Two stars, even. TripAdvisor gives it a certificate of excellence and 4 and a half things. No comparison with Gaudi's Familia Sangria, IMHO, but still of interest. At least it's finished and definitely in accord with the Master's wishes. Vicki says the interior is awesome.

The tower is visible all over town

The crossing, as it were, or perhaps the elevation

Up closer

Panning around, sort of

The seats were very comfortable, Vicki noted

Altar

More elevation

Up closer for different colors

Pulpit

Organ

Parthian shot

Architectural/theological statement (click to enlarge)