Everything worth walking to in Honfleur is within twenty minutes of the front door.
Rue Haute runs along the hillside parallel to the estuary, which is why the pilots and shipwrights lived on it. From here the old harbour is three hundred metres away and the town is best seen from its edges.
Close to the house
- The Vieux Bassin, the old harbour, with its tall narrow houses: five minutes
- Sainte-Catherine church, built of timber by shipwrights, and its separate bell tower: seven minutes
- The Saturday morning market on Place Sainte-Catherine
- The Eugène Boudin museum on Rue de l'Homme de Bois: ten minutes
- The salt stores on Rue de la Ville, two of them, from the seventeenth century
Walk early. By eleven in summer the quays are full, and the best hour in Honfleur is the one before breakfast, when the harbour is flat and the fishing boats are coming back in.
A little further
The path up the Côte de Grâce starts at the top of Rue Haute and climbs through beech woods to the sailors' chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and a view across the whole estuary. Allow forty minutes up and twenty down. Further along the coast road are the beaches at Butin and Vasouy, flat and wide at low tide, reached by bicycle in a quarter of an hour.
Trouville and Deauville are fifteen kilometres west. The Pont de Normandie crosses the estuary to Le Havre, and from there Étretat and its cliffs are an hour's drive. The desk keeps bus times and a list of taxis that answer at night.
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