Le Havre is located at the mouth of the Seine, 17 kilometres from Honfleur by road via the Normandy Bridge, while by water, it’s only a short distance away. Long before the Tancarville Bridge was built and inaugurated in 1954, and then the Normandy Bridge in 1995, inhabitants who wanted to go from one bank to the other or, as is still commonly said here, “across the water”, had to embark on boats that regularly made the crossing.
Those days are gone, of course, but to connect with this past, the Ville du Havre II, moored in the port of Le Havre and whose main activity is to allow tourists to visit the port of Le Havre, embarks for about an hour with up to 99 people for a return crossing of the estuary, not to Honfleur, but a little further, to Trouville-sur-Mer.
