We arrived in Le Havre, France, the port for Paris and Normandy, this morning to gray skies and and a mist of rain. The temperature was about 50 degrees, felt a lot colder than Fort Lauderdale two weeks ago. We were in France less than two years ago and spent time in Paris and the Normandy D-Day area so we decided to spend some time in the small 13th century Norman fishing village of Honfleur. This village is on the mouth of the Seine River and was the village from where Samuel De Champlain left from to explore Canada where he established the city of Quebec. (I bet the English-speaking Canadians still love him, oui ,oui)
Here is the plaque honoring him. I would have made it bigger but I bet your French is as good as mine and you will have no idea of what is says.
As you can see it’s an old fishing village. The camera caught two old fishing buddies back from the sea
This is the only building that remains from the walled city. The checkered home was converted from a half timbered home to brick to protect it from fire. The darker bricks are where the timbers were.
These houses are built on the old land that held the city walls. That head looks familiar, I think she was on the hop on hop off tour in Dublin!!! Back to the houses -- when the wall was taken down the person who owned it said houses could be built on the site but she stipulated each house couldn’t be any wider than 6 meters (about 19 feet +/-). So much for a 90 inch flat screen TV.
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