{"id":346,"date":"2006-09-25T18:16:59","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T18:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frenchduck.com\/latest\/uncategorized\/honfleur-shrimp-festival-2"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:41:28","slug":"honfleur-shrimp-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchduck.com\/latest\/honfleur-shrimp-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Honfleur Maritime Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Honfleur<\/strong> (14 Calvados, Normandie<\/em>) is a delightful small harbour town on the Normandy coast just west of the Seine river estuary and Le Havre<\/strong>, now reached after crossing the elegant Pont de Normandie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 – 13 October 2025<\/span> – Shrimp and Fishing Festival
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the town celebrates the Annual Fete de la Crevette et de la Peche<\/strong><\/em> (shrimps and fishing) – with music, fireworks, cookery, parade, marine crafts etc. For more info see www.ot-honfleur.fr <\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the industrial and concrete-dominated arrival in Le<\/strong> Havre<\/strong> this comes as a welcome breath of fresh air and you start to feel that you are in the real France (as long as you ignore all the British yachts in the harbour – Honfleur<\/strong> being a favourite weekend cross-channel destination from the south coast marinas).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in May <\/strong><\/span>– Maritime Festival<\/strong> (Fete des Marins<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Blessing of the Sea on the Sunday followed by a procession through the town on the Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is plenty of scope for confusion amongst novices on the naming of these crustaceans (in English almost as much as in French) – shrimps, prawns, scampi, crayfish.. Without going into the detailed classifications and natural history we’ll try to summarise..
\nCrevettes grises<\/strong> (grey) are shrimps – the larger ones also known as Gambas<\/strong>, whilst Crevettes roses<\/strong> (pink) are prawns – tending to be a bit bigger than the shrimp.Ecrivisses<\/strong> are crayfish, whilst langoustines<\/strong> are scampi – Langoustes<\/strong> being larger, more like a small spiny lobster. At the top of the pile is Homard<\/strong>, the lobster.<\/p>\n\n\n

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There is a good B&B in Honfleur<\/strong>; La Cour Sainte Catherine <\/a> a former convent of Augustinian sisters in the 17th Century with typical Normandy buildings clustered around a small enclosed garden – and within easy walking distance of the port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Save<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"tgv2\"by train to Rouen<\/a> <\/a>\"TGV\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n