Honfleur - picturesque port beloved by artists

Honfleur is still a working port - you can still buy your fish direct from the men who caught them - it is picture book pretty. What a photo opportunity! Cobbled streets, half timbered houses and working fishing boats.

World famous Honfleur is just a short drive from Le Gaudin

Centre of attraction is the Vieux Bassin -  boats, quays and definitive buildings: tall, narrow, slate- fronted waterside houses.

Nearby, visit the church of Ste- Catherine (built by local ships' carpenters, entirely from wood, to celebrate the exodus of the English after the Hundred Years War. It stands apart from the massive oak belfry, now a museum.

Pont de Normandie

While you are there, you really must visit the Pont de Normandie. Well worth a photograph or two - a space-age bridgelinking Honfleur to Le Havre. For a time, it was the world's longest cable-stayed bridge.

And Honfleur has lots of restaurants to restore flagging spirits. A perfect day away from the 21st Century