Haven Nº 031 — Honfleur, Normandy
La Ferme Saint Siméon
The inn still calls room 22 Monet's and room 19 Corot's. Two hours from Paris, either one can be yours on Friday.
Normandy
Tides, orchards and the painters’ coast.
A few times a year the sea comes back nine miles across the bay and closes around Mont-Saint-Michel; we give the 2027 days. In Honfleur, about two hours from Paris, the farm inn where, the hotel says, painters who could not pay for their beds left a painting, and where it still calls room 22 Monet’s.
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Haven Nº 016 — Le Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy
Mont-Saint-Michel
On February 22, 2027, the sea comes back nine miles to the Mont at sunrise. Be on the footbridge at six.
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