Honfleur to Le Boulay-Morin

After we checked out of our hotel Wednesday morning we stowed our luggage in the car and then went to see the Honfleur church. It is wooden, and unlike any church I have seen in France. The guide book says that Honfleur was putting all their money into building defenses against the English so that when they needed a church they had their expert boat builders build the wooden church. It does look a bit like an upside down boat. It’s a very pretty church.

From Honfleur we drove east along the Seine to Jumièges Abbey. It was Normandy’s largest abbey. In 1791 after the French Revolution it was taken by the government and sold, and turned into a quarry. We wandered among the ruins and then napped under a tree.

On our way there we stopped for a picnic and then took the free ferry across the Seine. The river seemed to be flowing the wrong way! We learned that it is tidal for 105 km inland.

We spent the night at the Château du Boulay Morin south of Rouen. For dinner we went into nearby Evreux and had a wonderful meal at a Moroccan restaurant, La Baraka.