Today was one of the few completely leisurely days we have had. With few exceptions, we have almost always been moving on to a new town every day. But we are spending two nights here in Honfleur leaving today just a day for roaming the streets. As is true of most little European towns there are plenty of little streets to roam.
Across our little street is St. Catherine's church, the largest wooden timber-built church with a separate bell tower in France. Unfortunately, wooden churches turn out to be harder to photograph than those made of light marble or stone, but it is very pretty and serene nonetheless.
The rest of the buildings here are an interesting hodge-podge of brick, slate and half-timber construction.
But the part of town that inspired Boudin and Monet and other impressionist painters along with the scores of little school children sketching along the port today is this particular view:
Across our little street is St. Catherine's church, the largest wooden timber-built church with a separate bell tower in France. Unfortunately, wooden churches turn out to be harder to photograph than those made of light marble or stone, but it is very pretty and serene nonetheless.
It is also the view that made me think of Porto last night. (We were just on that side looking the other way so didn't get a picture of it until this morning.)
Beautiful.
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