Motoring aboard . Cfiapter jfourlaiong ttie Coasft of ^ovmanhp. We lunched in the vine-embowered court ofthe Inn de la Plage at Yillerville, from whichwe had a glorious view of the sea. chapter :f our aians tfte ^icturesfque Coasit of iSormanli? THE road from Rouen to Honfleur is directand too interesting to be omitted. Ittakes one through Port-Audemer, outpast the Church of St. Germain and thencethrough a rich country to St. Maclou and Fique-fleur, where we caught another magnificent viewof the mouth of the Seine, with Havre and itsmass of spires and forest of masts set like asilhouette in th
Motoring aboard . Cfiapter jfourlaiong ttie Coasft of ^ovmanhp. We lunched in the vine-embowered court ofthe Inn de la Plage at Yillerville, from whichwe had a glorious view of the sea. chapter :f our aians tfte ^icturesfque Coasit of iSormanli? THE road from Rouen to Honfleur is directand too interesting to be omitted. Ittakes one through Port-Audemer, outpast the Church of St. Germain and thencethrough a rich country to St. Maclou and Fique-fleur, where we caught another magnificent viewof the mouth of the Seine, with Havre and itsmass of spires and forest of masts set like asilhouette in the red glow of the evening sun. Honfleur, which has a history that runs backto the time of the Conquest, was a great com-mercial center in the years now grown the sea was unkind and gradually filled itsharbor so that only the smaller boats can reachthe wharves, and its rival, Havre, seven milesacross the estuary of the Seine, has stolen awayits commerce, leaving it a haunt of ancient peace,glorying in a past which is dead and gone. Like all these Nor
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