Salon de thé La Petit Chine on Rue du Dauphin, Honfleur, was packed, not a seat to be had. We showed the very charming waitress our ancient postcard and she nodded ‘ah, oui’ with a shrug, as though this happened every day.
It is not exactly the right view, that would be from someone’s home and our charm can only go so far. We managed this nearly match:
Honfleur match! Ish!
The view shows Quai Sainte Catherine and Le Vieux Bassin in Honfleur.
On the left in a corner restaurant, next to the Pizzeria, we discovered that Andouillette is a pretty name for food to ‘torture tourists with poor French’.
The restaurant was in all ways quite lovely and we take full responsibility for not finding out more about the dish before we ordered. We are now expert.
Andouillette is made from the bits of animals no-one talks about. As Wiki explains it has ‘a strong, distinctive odor related to their intestinal origins and components’. The Wiki writer had more sense than to try the taste. We did not. It tastes as it smells.
Reverse of our postcard as it is nicer to look at than Andouillette (which is not even pretty).
Taken between between 1890 and 1900, these photochrom images of Honfleur are at once familiar yet remote. We recognise buildings but can only envy the photographer who saw a steam ship dock by the Chenin Blanc hotel, or took a horse drawn carriage ride past la Lieutenance. Photochrom, a method of adding colour to black and…
If you are a gentleman of a certain age, tall with a long black coat, a broad brimmed hat, carefully knotted scarf and very very small dog, and you live in Deauville, you may remember helping us as we balanced on giant terracotta flowerpots to try and match a view in Deauville. In the rain.…
Taken between between 1890 and 1900, these photochrom images of Honfleur are at once familiar yet remote. We recognise buildings but can only envy the photographer who saw a steam ship dock by the Chenin Blanc hotel, or took a horse drawn carriage ride past la Lieutenance. Photochrom, a method of adding colour to black and…
