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.