After visiting Rouen, it seemed only fair to continue along the Impressionist's route, to a small little town unscathed by the war, where Eugène Boudin (Monet's teacher) and Erik Satie (French composer and pianist) were born. What touched me about the latter was his affair with Renoir's muse, Suzanne Valadon, who after their first night together asked her to marry him. When she left him six months later, he described the heartbreak as "nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness". Honfleur also has the largest church made out of wood in France. A daytrip filled with cider served in soup bowls, narrow cobbled streets, crêpes for main and dessert, silly hitchhikers and just your general prettiness overload.
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