(continuation of weekend trip..)

Following a fun day of visiting Caens and many historical sites, we finally retired for the evening and went to our hotel. I roomed with two other girls and was lucky enough to get a room with a balcony!


my room mates for the weekend :)

After settling into our rooms, we all left to go exploring/find dinner, and ended up at a nice crepe restaurant. The food was delicious, though on the pricier side of things. I got a crepe with ham and eggs, and I think it cost 4.5 Euros-- the cheapest crepe there! I ended up sharing a dessert crepe with someone else to save money.. it was sure delicious!

mmm, delicious!

The next day, we went to Honfleur and Deauville! In Honfleur, we had a couple of hours to ourselves to go exploring. I hung out with a pretty big crowd that included some of the French students and I got to meet some of them!




During our four hours of exploring, we mostly walked about the flea market and wandered around. We saw a beautiful, wooden church and smelled delicious odors from street vendors. Throughout our wandering, we made our way to the composer Erik Satie house!!


Erik Satie house!

The house Erik Satie grew up in was turned into a museum, so we got a chance to go inside and see the house and the exhibit that had been created.



We didn't do much else in Honfleur afterwards except eat lunch before heading off to Deauville.


mmm, goat cheese!

After lunch, we all got back on the bus and headed off to Deauville, near the English Chanel. There was actually an American film festival going on in Deauville the weekend we were there, and Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, and Gwyneth Paltrow were supposed to be there!


American film festival

We unfortunately missed Harrison Ford by a day-- he was supposed to arrive the next day!-- so instead, we hung out on the English Chanel where some sunbathed, went in the water, or just enjoyed being outside :) We also decided to take a walk in the ritzy city paraded by Prada, Louis Vuitton, and Hermes. Our weekend journey ended here and we returned home on a three hour bus ride back.