the port on the Seine estuary, with the tall houses of the Vieux Bassin, Sainte-Catherine built entirely of wood, Boudin and Satie, the crevette grise fishing boats and the motorhome car park on the bassin Carnot
Honfleur is the port of fishermen and shipowners on the south bank of the Seine estuary, opposite Le Havre, in the Calvados, where the Côte Fleurie begins. Its heart is the Vieux Bassin, the old harbour enclosed within the walls, with the tall, narrow houses of the quai Sainte-Catherine reflected in the water and the Lieutenance at its mouth. Around it are the church of Sainte-Catherine, built entirely of wood, with its bell tower standing apart, the quarter of the salt stores, the museums of Eugène Boudin and Erik Satie, and up above, on the Côte de Grâce, the sailors' chapel. The motorhome stays at the commune's car park on the bassin Carnot, at the entrance to the town coming from the Pont de Normandie, and the centre is explored on foot.
Sleeping
Stops and overnight stays
The commune gives motorhomes a car park with facilities on the Quai Nord, opposite the bassin Carnot, at the entrance to the town coming from the Pont de Normandie, about six hundred and fifty metres as the crow flies from the Vieux Bassin: you enter through the barrier, it cannot be booked, and you stay three days at most. Since 2026 there has also been a motorhome car park without facilities, on the route du Bassin Carnot. The Camping du Phare, the commune's campsite, is in town from April to October, and around Honfleur there are the campsites of Équemauville and Fiquefleur-Équainville and the La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur stopover. A motorhome does not get into the Bassin du Centre and Naturospace car parks: the first is forbidden above 1.90 metres, the second has a barrier at 2 metres.
Parcheggio camper del bassin Carnot
Quai Nord, bassin Carnot, 14600 Honfleur
the commune's enclosure on the Quai Nord, next to the bassin de l'Est, on whose car park the big wheel stands in summer. The electricity sockets are 5 amps, no appliances above 800 watts, and there is not one for every space: 130 according to the commune, 140 according to the tourist office. There is water and emptying for grey water and the toilet; there are no toilets or showers, and no shade either. The commune's rules say it is a stopover and not a campsite: no tables, chairs or awnings outside the motorhome, no barbecues. On foot and by bicycle you leave through the pedestrian passages, never through the barriers. You walk to the Vieux Bassin along the bassin de l'Est; on the quai de la Cale there is a picnic area with trees and tables. The phone number is the town hall's, and the email address is the one the commune gives for information on the car park: it belongs to Indigo, the company that runs the town's paid car parks
160 according to the commune, 180 according to the tourist office
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20 euros for 24 hours, 40 euros for two days and 60 euros for three days, which is the maximum; a lost ticket costs 35 euros. Water, emptying and electricity are included, while they last. This is the price list the town council approved on 1 July 2026, in force since 2 July; the commune's page on motorhomes still has the old figures · +33 2 31 81 88 00 · ville-honfleur.com
Parcheggio camper senza servizi, route du Bassin Carnot
route du Bassin Carnot, 14600 Honfleur
the new 2026 car park, reserved for motorhomes, next to the coach park, behind the Lidl supermarket. The tourist office lists it for parking and for staying, but it is not a service area: for water and emptying you go to the Quai Nord enclosure, with the enclosure ticket. According to the council decision the same rate applies to a stretch of the Quai Nord without facilities. How many spaces it has is not stated. It is about a kilometre as the crow flies to the Vieux Bassin, a little more on foot
no services
14 euros for 24 hours at the pay machine, with no water or electricity; those who stay longer pay 40 euros, the forfait post-stationnement, which works as a fine. This is the price list approved by the commune on 1 July 2026 · ville-honfleur.com
the commune's campsite, west of the centre, on the coast road, which the operator puts five minutes from the Vieux Bassin, with the Butin beach less than a kilometre away. It has about a hundred pitches for tents, caravans, motorhomes and vans; in the winter of 2025-2026 ten of them became cabins for seasonal workers. You leave by midday. Wifi is only available around reception, and the washing machine and tumble dryer take tokens
99 pitches in all in the 2023 classification
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25 euros a night from 1 April to 4 July for a motorhome with two people, including the pitch, 6 amp electricity and the service point, plus 0.22 euros per person of tourist tax; 27.50 euros from 4 July to 29 August, and 25 euros again from 29 August to 31 October. This is the operator's 2026 price list · +33 2 31 89 10 26 · normandie-sur-mer.fr
a five-star campsite on the heights south of Honfleur, with pitches between hedges, water and emptying on the pitch, heated toilets, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a gym, a bar and a restaurant, and a supermarket nearby. Pets are allowed. A booking request is made through the website
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From 30 April to 4 July 2026 the pitch costs 10 euros, plus 8 euros per person, 7 euros for 6 amp electricity and 0.66 euros per person of tourist tax: two adults with electricity pay 34.32 euros a night. This is the campsite's 2026 price list · +33 2 31 89 28 32 · campinglabriquerie.com
910 route de la Morelle, 27210 Fiquefleur-Équainville
a four-star campsite in the Eure, six kilometres from Honfleur, with grassy pitches for motorhomes, filling and emptying, a washing machine and a tumble dryer, an indoor and an outdoor swimming pool and a bar. At night the gate is closed and there is a night warden. Booking is through the website
134 pitches in all
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In the 2025 price list, from 4 April to 27 May, 17 euros for the Nature pitch and 24 euros for the Confort with 8 amp electricity; how many people are included is not stated, and the campsite does not publish the 2026 price list · +33 2 32 57 63 51 · camping-honfleur.com
the Camping-Car Park stopover in the village just east of Honfleur, close to the Pont de Normandie and the motorway exit, three hundred metres from the village bakery, butcher's and bar. Each pitch has its own 6 amp socket; there are no toilets or showers. The operator warns that the stopover lies in a flood risk zone. How to get to Honfleur on foot or by bus nobody says: it is about three kilometres
16 motorhome pitches
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11.70 euros a night, plus the tourist tax, which in 2026 was 0.66 euros per person: with that, two adults pay 13.02 euros. Filling and emptying only, with a stay of up to five hours, costs 6 euros. This is the operator's price list from 23 October 2026 to 31 December 2027 · campingcarpark.com
In Honfleur you walk: the museums, the churches and the Vieux Bassin are all within a kilometre, and the tourist office suggests spending a whole stay in Honfleur on foot. The motorhome stays at the bassin Carnot.
You do not take the motorhome into the centre: the Bassin du Centre car park, on the quai de la Tour, is forbidden to vehicles taller than 1.90 metres or heavier than 3.5 tonnes, the Naturospace car park has a barrier at 2 metres, and a motorhome cannot drive up the Mont-Joli, the tourist office says. Since 18 June 2026 the place Sainte-Catherine and the streets around it have been pedestrian only, until the commune draws up a new traffic plan. Coaches need a permit from the commune to cross the centre by the pont de la Lieutenance at weekends and on public holidays from April to June and in September and October, and every day in July and August: no such rule is written for motorhomes, but that bridge is the narrow point
The paid on-street parking is charged from 8:00 to 20:00 and is free at night: 2.40 euros an hour, and 2.50 in the centre. Whether a motorhome may park there the commune does not say
By bus: Honfleur has no railway station. The nearest are Trouville-Deauville, Pont-l'Évêque and Le Havre, and from there you take the coaches of the regional Nomad network: line 122 to Deauville and Caen, line 111 between Le Havre, Deauville and Caen, line 123 between Lisieux, Honfleur and Le Havre. The coach station is in rue des Vases, four hundred metres from the Vieux Bassin. Routes can be looked up on atoumod.fr. In town there is the small Ho'Bus network
The Pont de Normandie, the two-kilometre cable-stayed bridge over the estuary, opened in 1995, is the road from Le Havre and from Étretat, and it is a toll bridge. From 1 May 2026 it costs 7.10 euros in class 2, the class for vehicles between 2 and 3 metres high and up to 3.5 tonnes, where most motorhomes fall, and 7.60 euros in class 3, for motorhomes taller than 3 metres or heavier; the classes are the national ones of French tolls, because the bridge operator does not state them. You pay in cash, by card or by electronic toll tag, and the tolls change every 1 May. Further upstream the Pont de Tancarville costs 3.70 euros in class 2 and 4.40 in class 3
Low emission zones: the commune of Honfleur has none. Le Havre, on the other side of the bridge, according to Le Havre Seine Métropole has had since 2025 a zone inside the ring road in which the Crit'Air sticker is required to drive. The sticker is ordered only on the official website certificat-air.gouv.fr
By bicycle: Normandy's two long cycle routes pass through Honfleur, the Vélomaritime along the coast and the Seine à vélo along the river
Seeing
Sights
The walk starts from the motorhome car park, along the bassin de l'Est to the tourist office, and makes a loop of the centre: Saint-Léonard, the salt stores, the two museums of the Vieux Honfleur, the Vieux Bassin with the Lieutenance, Sainte-Catherine with its bell tower, the Boudin and Satie museums, and then the jetée along the estuary. The Côte de Grâce, with the sailors' chapel, is a separate climb. Tap a marker on the map to open its entry below.
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The église Saint-Léonard
Church · free entry · 49.41759, 0.23496
place Saint-Léonard, 14600 Honfleur
at the entrance to the old town, to the south-east, the church of the Saint-Léonard quarter, recorded since 1186. The façade is Flamboyant Gothic, from the end of the fifteenth century, with its carved portal, rebuilt after the Hundred Years' War; the rest was rebuilt between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the octagonal domed bell tower of the eighteenth century, rare in Normandy. Inside are modern stained-glass windows and a wooden ceiling.
the two salt stores that remain of the three built in 1670, with stones taken largely from the demolished walls and oak roofs made by the ship's carpenters. They held ten thousand tonnes of salt from the salt tax, used for cod fishing on the banks of Newfoundland. Today they are the commune's halls for exhibitions, concerts and fairs, and you only go inside when there is an event; from outside they can always be seen.
The musée d'Ethnographie et d'Art populaire normand
Museum · paid entry · 49.41965, 0.23373
rue de la Prison, 14600 Honfleur
the museum that the Société du Vieux-Honfleur opened in 1896, among the first provincial ethnographic museums in France, in a sixteenth-century half-timbered house that was the prison of the viscounty of Roncheville. Nine rooms furnished as they were used, among them the haberdasher's shop, the cooper, the weaver, the printer, the townsman's house, the girl's bedroom and the sailor's dining room, with Norman furniture, headdresses and costumes. The ticket is also valid for the musée de la Marine, a few steps away. Next door is the cour de Roncheville, with the manor house of 1470 of Admiral Louis de Bourbon.
Opening hours from 1 April to 30 June 2027 Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00; closed on Monday and on 1 May · 7 euros together with the musée de la Marine, reduced 6 euros from 16 to 25 years; included in the museum passes · +33 2 31 89 14 12
The musée de la Marine, in the église Saint-Étienne
Museum · paid entry · 49.41972, 0.23373
11 quai Saint-Étienne, 14600 Honfleur
the église Saint-Étienne, from the fourteenth century, which the tourist office gives as the oldest church in the town, on the edge of the Vieux Bassin. Since 1976 it has housed the maritime collections of the Vieux Honfleur: ship models, engravings and objects from fishing, the shipyards and the great trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, almost all of them gifts and bequests from the townspeople.
Opening hours from 1 April to 30 June 2027 Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00; closed on Monday and on 1 May · 7 euros together with the musée d'Ethnographie, reduced 6 euros from 16 to 25 years; included in the museum passes · +33 2 31 89 14 12
the old harbour inside the walls, where ships were fitted out for Newfoundland and Canada, for the Indies and Guinea and for privateering. In 1668 Colbert sent Duquesne, the fortifications on the west side were pulled down and the houses of the quai Sainte-Catherine were expropriated, and between 1684 and 1690 the harbour became a basin with a lock, which held the water even at low tide. The wall of the quai Sainte-Catherine dates from the end of the eighteenth century, that of the quai Saint-Étienne from the beginning of the nineteenth. The tall, narrow houses of the quai Sainte-Catherine, of different heights, have upper floors that open onto the street behind, and almost all of them have two owners. Today the basin holds pleasure boats. The tourist office recommends the morning, when the sun lights up the façades of the quai Sainte-Catherine, the late afternoon and the evening, with the lights in the water. Since 1 April 2026 part of the quai Sainte-Catherine and the place Berthelot have been a building site: three houses, at numbers 36, 38 and 40, were at risk of collapse and are propped up; the quai reopened to pedestrians on 8 August 2026, but some shops are still closed, and what it will be like in spring 2027 the commune does not say.
the oldest building in the town, according to the tourist office, and the last remnant of the fortifications, at the mouth of the Vieux Bassin: it was the Caen gate, which gave access to the walled town. When the bastion on the west side was pulled down at the end of the seventeenth century it became the house of the king's lieutenant, hence the name. Restored, today it is a centre on the maritime history of Honfleur, with reconstructions, scale models and games for children too, and the terraces at the top with a view all around over the port, where the binoculars show what it used to look like. The visit takes about three quarters of an hour. Pushchairs and pets are not allowed, and there are no toilets inside.
Opening hours from 1 April to 1 November 2027 Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-18:00, with last entry at 12:30 and 17:30; closed on Monday and on 1 May · 7 euros, reduced 6 euros from 16 to 25 years, free under 16 years; included in the museum passes · +33 2 61 67 11 60
one of the largest wooden churches in France, the largest with a separate bell tower, which from outside has the outline of a covered market. The first church was destroyed in the English invasion of 1419; this one was built by the townspeople after the English left, with little money, with wood from the forest of Touques and the techniques of the ship's carpenters. There are two parallel naves, and inside the wooden vaults look like the hull of an upturned ship; in 1496 the lords of Roncheville gave a plot of land to enlarge it. The Baroque altar with twisted columns dates from 1669-1670, by the Rouen sculptor Pierre Baudard. It is the sailors' church: on Pentecost Sunday the Fête des Marins mass is held here. Around it, in the rue de l'Homme de Bois, rue des Lingots and rue des Logettes, and in the rue Haute with the shipowners' houses, is the oldest quarter, and on Saturday mornings the market is held in the square.
the bell tower of Sainte-Catherine, a square tower made entirely of oak, built between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by the ship's carpenters and kept away from the church so that lightning would not set it on fire. It stands above the bell ringer's house, on a stone base, and is clad in chestnut shingles; the slanting props date from 1718, put there when it was at risk of falling. Since 1959 it has housed a small museum of religious art, with sculptures and mementoes of the charity confraternities and of the chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. It belongs to the musée Eugène-Boudin and is closed from 1 November to 15 April; the sources do not give the May opening hours, and they disagree on the price: ask the museum.
the town's museum, founded in 1868 at the wish of the Honfleur painter Louis-Alexandre Dubourg and of Eugène Boudin, whose bequest reached the museum in 1899; since 1960 it has borne Boudin's name. It gathers the painters who between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries painted the estuary and the coast, from the Romantics to the Impressionists and the Fauves: Courbet, Jongkind, Monet, Dufy, Friesz, Vallotton, Marquet, and ninety-two works by Boudin, with his pastels of skies and the scenes at the Saint-Siméon farm, where the painters used to meet. There is also a room with Norman costumes, lace and headdresses, and twice a year an exhibition in the old chapel. For children there are games and a space of their own.
Opening hours from 1 April to 30 June 2027 Monday and Wednesday to Sunday 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-17:30; closed on Tuesday, on 1 May and on the opening days of exhibitions · 9 euros, reduced 7 euros from 16 to 25 years; included in the museum passes · +33 2 31 89 54 00
the half-timbered houses where Erik Satie, the composer of the Gymnopédies, was born on 17 May 1866; he was a friend of Alphonse Allais, also from Honfleur, and later worked with Picasso, with Braque and with Cocteau. It is not an exhibition but a route with music in headphones, one room after another, with a winged pear, a piano that plays by itself, flying costumes, a cabaret and umbrellas.
Opening hours from 1 April to 30 June 2027 Monday and Wednesday to Sunday 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-17:30; closed on Tuesday and on 1 May · 9 euros, reduced 7 euros from 16 to 25 years; included in the museum passes · +33 2 31 89 11 11
The jetée, the Jardin des Personnalités and the Butin beach
Walk · free entry · 49.42692, 0.22862
from the Vieux Bassin the promenade de la Jetée follows the channel to the lock and then the estuary, where you see ships leaving the Seine for the sea, and sometimes a container ship heading upriver close to the jetty. On the way is the Jardin public, the English-style garden of 1996, with ponds and a play area for children, open from 8:00 to 21:00 from May to August and until 19:00 for the rest of the year. At the end is the Jardin des Personnalités, ten hectares on the estuary opened in 2004, with flowerbeds shaped like boats and in each one the bust of a figure linked to Honfleur: the painters, Champlain and the other navigators, Colbert, Satie, Allais, Baudelaire. Further on, at the entrance to the town from the coast road, the Butin beach, which Seurat painted, has a free car park for cars, where whether motorhomes may park is not stated, and a pedestrian underpass down to the sand.
Opening hours the Jardin des Personnalités every day 8:00-19:00
Point of interest · paid entry · 49.42565, 0.22937
boulevard Charles V, 14600 Honfleur
a tropical greenhouse of a thousand square metres, between 25 and 28 degrees, with mist, trees and flowers from the equator, and butterflies and birds flying free: every year about fifteen thousand butterflies hatch there, in front of the visitors. The visit takes from three quarters of an hour to an hour, and it is a good shelter for a rainy afternoon with children. The car park next to it has a barrier at 2 metres.
Opening hours from 1 April to 31 May 2027 every day 9:30-18:30, with last entry at 17:45; closed in winter, in 2026-2027 from 15 November to 6 February · 11.10 euros, from 3 to 11 years 8.40 euros · +33 2 31 81 77 00
The Côte de Grâce: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and the Mont-Joli
Church · free entry · 49.42286, 0.22172
Charrière de Grâce, 14600 Équemauville
above the town, on the plateau de Grâce, the sailors' chapel, protector of Honfleur, full of ex-votos and hanging ship models. Today's chapel dates from the seventeenth century, replacing an older one that collapsed with the cliff, and it has been a historic monument since 1938. Since March 2026 it has been under restoration for two years: in 2026 the roof and the stained glass, in 2027 the decoration, the ex-votos, the paintings and the services. During the works it stays open, with a few closing days that the commune announces; what can be seen inside in spring 2027 is not stated. Just below is the Mont-Joli, the viewpoint over the roofs of Honfleur, the estuary and the Pont de Normandie, which the tourist office recommends at sunset. On foot the loop from the Vieux Bassin, by way of Sainte-Catherine, the Mont-Joli and the chapel, is two and a half kilometres, and with the stops it takes two hours; it climbs a little. The commune's little tourist train goes up to the chapel.
Opening hours every day 9:30-17:30, except on the days closed for the works
Honfleur's festivals belong to the port: the Fête des Marins at Pentecost, with the blessing of the sea and the procession of model ships up to the chapel, the festival of the scallop and of fishing in October, the sailors' games on the Vieux Bassin on 14 July. Nothing is scheduled for early May, and in 2025 and 2026 the commune's programme for those days had only small things, at the media library.
Next: Salon de la création · 30 Oct - 1 Novin 5 days
30 Oct › 1Nov
Salon de la création
between the end of October and the beginning of November
three days of designers and art craftspeople in the Greniers à sel, with free entry
in 5 days
26-29Nov
Festival Honfleur Lyrique
at the end of November
young opera singers with professionals, with films, talks and exhibitions, at the Greniers à sel, the media library and the cinema; tickets are paid and booked
15-17May
Fête des Marins
the Pentecost weekend, from Saturday to Monday
the sailors' festival, organised by the Société des Marins of Honfleur since 1861: the town decked with flags, concerts in the square, on Sunday the sailors' mass at Sainte-Catherine and from 16:00 the boats that go out for the blessing of the sea offshore, with the wreath thrown into the water; on Monday morning the children's procession with ship models decorated with paper flowers climbs from the town hall up to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, with the brass bands and the confraternities, for the mass on the plateau. It is free. 2026 was the hundred and sixty-fifth edition
to be confirmed
27Jun
Grande Parade de l'Armada
the last Sunday of the Rouen Armada
the tall ships of the Rouen Armada sail down the Seine from the morning to the estuary, and in Honfleur you watch them pass from the foot of the Pont de Normandie. In 2027 the Armada runs from 17 to 27 June
14Jul
Fête nationale
on 14 July
the ceremony in the morning, in the afternoon the sailors' games on the Vieux Bassin, with the greasy pole and the mât incliné, a soaped twelve-metre tree trunk over the water, held since 1880; in the evening the dance in place de l'Hôtel de Ville, the torchlight procession and at 23:15 the fireworks from the jetée de l'Est. From the afternoon the centre is closed to cars. The times are those of the programme of the latest edition
This year's dates are not out yet
Pique-nique musical
in June
a day of music at the Jardin des Personnalités, from 12:00 to 17:00, with lunch on the grass brought from home; it is free. In 2026 it was on Sunday 21 June
Nuit des Artistes
in early August
the galleries and the streets open in the evening, with artists working live, and fireworks at 23:30. It is free
Estuaire d'en rire
in September
the comedy festival at the Greniers à sel, with tickets
Fête de la Coquille et de la Pêche
a weekend in October
the festival that used to be the shrimp festival: the fishermen sell their catch around the Vieux Bassin, chefs cook in front of the town hall, old sailing boats lie in the basin, and at the Greniers à sel there are demonstrations of knots and nets. On Sunday at 16:00 there is the contest to see who can peel the most grey shrimps in two minutes. It is free
Marché de Noël
in December, until the first days of January
some thirty wooden chalets in place de l'Hôtel de Ville, the tree lit on the first Saturday of the market and the Christmas concerts at Saint-Léonard. On 23 October the 2026 dates had not yet been published: in 2025 it ran from 20 December to 4 January
Remember
Useful tips
1 May 2027 is a Saturday, and in France it is the only public holiday on which by law almost all employed work stops: in Honfleur the museums and the Lieutenance are closed. On Sunday all the museums and the Lieutenance are open. On Monday the Lieutenance and the two museums of the Vieux Honfleur are closed, on Tuesday the musée Eugène-Boudin and the Maisons Satie: those who arrive on Sunday see the Lieutenance and the Vieux Honfleur the same day, if they are at the door of the Lieutenance before 17:30
The tourist office advises avoiding weekends, summer and public holidays. In 2027 the spring holidays of the schools of Normandy, zone B, run from 17 April to 2 May, and school starts again on the 3rd: on the 1 May weekend the town may be full, and at the motorhome car park, which cannot be booked, arrive early. If it is full, there is the one without facilities on the route du Bassin Carnot, or the La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur stopover
The town's museum passes are bought on the tourist office website: the Duo-Pass, two sites of your choice among Boudin, Satie, the Vieux Honfleur and the Lieutenance, 12 euros; the Multi-Pass, all of them, 18 euros. With the pass you do not book a time
The quai Sainte-Catherine, the most photographed side of the Vieux Bassin, has been propped up since 1 April 2026, and the place Sainte-Catherine is pedestrian only: before leaving, check on the commune's website how the building site stands
The chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Grâce has been under restoration since March 2026 for two years, and in 2027 the works are inside, on the ex-votos and the paintings: before going up, ask the tourist office what can be seen
The main market is on Saturday morning, in place Sainte-Catherine (the tourist office also gives Cours des Fossés), with the flower market in place Arthur-Boudin; whether it is held on Saturday 1 May, which is a public holiday, is not stated. The organic market is on Wednesday morning. Fish is bought from Thursday to Sunday morning on the quai de la Quarantaine, and from the fishing boats in the afternoon too
The Pont de Normandie changes its tolls every 1 May: those who cross it in early May 2027 pay the new price list, which does not exist yet
Normandy-style mussels can be made in a motorhome on a single burner, in one pan, in twenty minutes
Honfleur · part two
and then?
What to taste, and where to go tomorrow.
Taste
The port of Honfleur has two specialities, the crevette grise, the little grey shrimp of the bay, which here they call the p'tite grise, and the scallop, which is fished from October to May. The crevette is cooked in boiling salted water, for five minutes after it has come back to the boil, and in the Honfleur manner it is eaten just like that, peeled by hand, with bread and butter. On the quai de la Quarantaine the fish market, depending on the landings, is held from Thursday to Sunday from 8:00 to about 11:00; and two fishing boats, the Andromède and the Nirvana, in the 2026 calendar from April to June and in September and October sell on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 to 18:00 fish, shrimps and fried fish to eat on the spot, éperlan, crevettes and sprats. Honfleur lies in the Pays d'Auge: the Pont-l'Évêque, square since the eighteenth century, and the Livarot, with the bands around it, made with the milk of Norman cows only; the cider of the Pays d'Auge, the first Norman cider with a designation, made sparkling in the bottle; the Pays d'Auge calvados, distilled twice and aged for at least two years in oak, and pommeau, apple must stopped with calvados. The Domaine de la Pommeraie, in Gonneville-sur-Honfleur, offers visits of its calvados cellars with a tasting: in 2026 from 1 April to 15 November, every day, for 4 euros. Normandy's bouchot mussels are at their best from June to February: in early May the recipe below is made with the ones you can find.
the Vieux Bassin with the tall houses of the Quai Sainte-Catherine and a red fishing boat at its mooring, in MayPhoto: Christian Gebhardt, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the houses of the Quai Sainte-Catherine in the warm morning light, reflected in the water of the Vieux Bassin, in NovemberPhoto: Jean-Marc Astesana, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0the Quai Sainte-Catherine at dusk, with lit windows and boats in the Vieux Bassin, in JulyPhoto: Florian Pépellin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0a painter at his easel on the edge of the Vieux Bassin, facing the Quai Sainte-Catherine and the LieutenancePhoto: Pir6mon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the Lieutenance at the entrance to the Vieux Bassin, with an old red fishing boat moored in front, in JunePhoto: Dennis G. Jarvis, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0the arched gateway of the Lieutenance, with its two corbelled turrets and the Virgin in the niche, in SeptemberPhoto: Philippe Alès, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the Église Saint-Étienne, now the maritime museum, with its wooden spire above the boats of the Vieux Bassin, in AugustPhoto: Ignaz Wiradi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Rue de la Prison, with the jettied timber houses of the ethnography museum and the Église Saint-Étienne on the right, in JunePhoto: Dennis G. Jarvis, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0a room of the Museum of Ethnography and Norman Folk Art, with the fireplace and the furniture of an old house, in AugustPhoto: Derbrauni, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0the side of the Église Sainte-Catherine, with its half-timbered lower walls and double slate roof, in FebruaryPhoto: Balou46, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the two wooden naves of the Église Sainte-Catherine, with their vaults shaped like a ship's hull, in SeptemberPhoto: Johan Allard, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the musicians carved in the wood of the organ gallery, in the Église Sainte-Catherine, in AugustPhoto: Ellywa, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Clocher Sainte-Catherine, the wooden bell tower standing apart from the church, with market stalls below, in JulyPhoto: Nikater, Wikimedia Commons, pubblico dominiothe Clocher Sainte-Catherine rising behind the houses of the Vieux Bassin, with tables out on the quay, in AugustPhoto: Elizaveta Butryn, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Saturday market on Place Sainte-Catherine, with the bell tower and the side of the church, in SeptemberPhoto: Daniel VILLAFRUELA, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the timber roof structure inside the Greniers à Sel, in AprilPhoto: Ibex73, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0sailing ships at Honfleur, a painting by Eugène Boudin from 1856Photo: Eugène Boudin, Wikimedia Commons, pubblico dominiothe red and white half-timbered house of the Maisons Satie, where Erik Satie was born, in FebruaryPhoto: Miniwark, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Église Saint-Léonard with its long nave and bell tower, seen from the flower garden, in MayPhoto: Nortmannus, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the facade of the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on the Côte de Grâce, in OctoberPhoto: Selmoval, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0inside the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, with hanging model ships and sailors' votive offerings, in DecemberPhoto: Selbymay, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the outer harbour and the Vieux Bassin seen from above, with the roofs of Honfleur and the hill behind, in JulyPhoto: Tilly antoine, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0fishing boats moored in the outer harbour, with the houses of the Vieux Bassin reflected in the water, in JunePhoto: COUPRY PASCAL, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Seine estuary at low tide and, on the far side, the port of Le Havre, in SeptemberPhoto: Daniel VILLAFRUELA, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
