Honfleur: Underwhelming

From Le Havre, we took a day trip to check out Honfleur, which is right to the south of the mouth of the Seine. All the guidebooks recommend Honfleur over Le Havre, with its historical center spared from the devastations of WWII. Honfleur is a cute enough village. At the time I didn't think it warranted a day trip. Now, many museums later, after coming across various paintings of Honfleur, I realized that the place is a cradle of sorts of the Impressionists. We had to bag it.

St Catherine's Church was constructed entirely with wood timbers in the 1400's by the local fishermen and shipbuilders. To prevent a catastrophic fire, the belfry, famously painted by Claude Monet, was built separately across the street.








A few tricks with my camera to take a photo of St Catherine's Belfry ala Monet.


Honfleur's Old Port sees only pleasure boats and tourists these days.








We walked up the hill to Mont-Joli where one can see the mouth of the Seine; where the Seine River spills out into La Manche in French, aka the English Channel. Looking east is the spiffy new-ish bridge over the Seine that connects Le Havre to Honfleur....






...To the west it's a view across the Seine to Le Havre Port and out to the English Channel. Very cool!


The view out to the English Channel is best shown in this photo from the shore near our lunch spot for the day.


There is a park by the Seine with a pond dedicated to Monet. Here is my "ala Monet" shot.


One more Park shot. Flowers are still blooming even though it's October.