Mini-Book Pages from Honfleur

This is the last of my port pages from our fly-cruise last November, for an extra port that was squeezed in as an itinerary change. We were supposed to visit Málaga, Gibraltar and Lisbon, with an overnight stay in the Portuguese capital, but an approaching storm caused the company to shorten the stops in Gibraltar and Lisbon so we could cross the Bay of Biscay a day earlier. This gave us a free day at the end of the cruise, which we spent in Honfleur, France.

My husband and I had been here before but that was 15 years ago and we didn't remember much beyond the Vieux Bassin (old harbour) and an old wooden church with separate bell tower. We picked up a map when we disembarked which showed three walking tours in the town so we started off with two of them; later in the day our daughter and I did the third.

Each port has a double page in my mini-album, with a 4x6 title card and then  generally three more 4x6 cards or photos which open up with enough flips and flaps to hold all the photos.  

This time, the left side opens up to a page of journalling for the whole day and a waterfall of photos and cards from the Old Town walking tour, as there were so many old buildings to include.

I haven't taken pictures of all the waterfall pages, but there are 10 photos in there with a few journalling cards to explain what they all are.

The top of the right-hand side has a view of a park called the Jardin des Personnalités, and this lifts up and pulls out from a pocket. The Jardin is full of busts of famous people connected with Honfleur, and I have included about half of them, in four groups.

The bottom of the right-hand page has a smaller lift up flap from our third walk, to the Côte de Grâce viewpoint. The outside (above) has an overall view of the town, and the inside has photos of the small chapel on the top of the hill.

So that's the last port done, just one other page left and then I need to construct the cover. I've left that until last as I had no idea how thick the pages would get when I started, and therefore what size spine the book would need. That will all be the subject of my next post.

Supplies: Cardstock - Art Studio; Papers - Simple Stories Hello Today, Simple Stories Happy Travels, My Mind's Eye Now and Then; Letters - Glitz Design, Creative Devotion, Make & Create; Stickers - Simple Stories, Studio Calico, Tim Holtz, OneCanoeTwo; Washi Tape - Ebay, Little B; Enamel Geotag - Pink Paislee