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Location Date France 
1452297600 Germany 1451520000 Italy 1449360000 Spain 1448841600 Switzerland 1448668800 UK 1447718400 Belgium 1389052800 Luxembourg 1387497600 Austria 1387152000 Hungary 1387065600 Croatia 1386806400 Ireland 1357948800 Czech Republic 1356480000 Turkey 1354233600 Netherlands 1324771200 Greece 1290729600 -
Location Date Paris 1452297600 Rouen 1451952000 Montpellier 1449014400 Bordeaux 1448323200 Clermont-Ferrand 1448150400 Strasbourg 1389484800 Calais 1388361600 Honfleur
1388275200 Caen 1388188800 Grenoble 1385596800 Chamonix 1357171200 Amiens 1323993600 Bayeux 1323907200 La Baule 1323648000 Saint-Martin-De-Re 1323561600 Saint Jean Pied De Port 1323388800 Biarritz 1323302400 Toulouse 1323043200 Argeles-Sur-Mer 1322956800 St-Remy-De-Provence 1322870400 Nice 1322784000 Menton 1322697600 Annecy 1322265600 Talloires 1322179200 Mont Saint Michel 1292371200 Saint-Malo 1292198400 Orleans 1292112000 Dijon 1291939200 Colmar 1291852800
Left Caen to day and headed up to Honfleur, about 60km north of Caen. Honfleur is a small port town on the mouth of the Seine river.
We're only spending one night here before we head up to Calais to catch a ferry across to the UK (if the weather gods are on our side that is). Being a fairly small town, we think we can see most of it this afternoon and tonight, seeing as there's only the immediate harbor area to see.
As you can see from the photos, it's a really picturesque place. It's built totally around the fishing harbor. Narrow cobbled streets, harbourside pathways, art galleries, craft shops, and restaurants. Restaurants galore. We've never seen so many restaurants crammed into one small area. It's almost as if the town decreed that feeding people was a town statute. And being harborside, seafood is the order of the day.
We picked out one which looked promising for a bit of lunch (but any of them would have been OK, they all have very similar menus and prices), and soon we were tucking into a bowl of mussels steamed in a broth of butter garlic and parsley - superb.
It's a pretty busy little place - not a parking space to be had anywhere (we even had to park in a carpark and pay for it!!). I can imagine what it would be like in the peak tourist season, simply insane.
Anyway, tomorrow we head up to Calais and cross over to the UK. It looks like the weather over there has settled down a bit so we thought we'd chance it. We hope to spend the first night in Eastbourne before heading over to Exeter and then to Padstow on the Cornwall coast.
We're only spending one night here before we head up to Calais to catch a ferry across to the UK (if the weather gods are on our side that is). Being a fairly small town, we think we can see most of it this afternoon and tonight, seeing as there's only the immediate harbor area to see.
As you can see from the photos, it's a really picturesque place. It's built totally around the fishing harbor. Narrow cobbled streets, harbourside pathways, art galleries, craft shops, and restaurants. Restaurants galore. We've never seen so many restaurants crammed into one small area. It's almost as if the town decreed that feeding people was a town statute. And being harborside, seafood is the order of the day.
We picked out one which looked promising for a bit of lunch (but any of them would have been OK, they all have very similar menus and prices), and soon we were tucking into a bowl of mussels steamed in a broth of butter garlic and parsley - superb.
It's a pretty busy little place - not a parking space to be had anywhere (we even had to park in a carpark and pay for it!!). I can imagine what it would be like in the peak tourist season, simply insane.
Anyway, tomorrow we head up to Calais and cross over to the UK. It looks like the weather over there has settled down a bit so we thought we'd chance it. We hope to spend the first night in Eastbourne before heading over to Exeter and then to Padstow on the Cornwall coast.
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