Amiens Cathedral Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text Don't put anything here After visiting Brussels we stayed overnight in Ghent again and then left for France next morning. We stopped briefly in a small town called Arras, which has a fair (it was Saturday morning), where people were selling everything from t-shirts to live geese. (We have some pictures of fair in the password-protected section.) On the way out of Arras we managed to get really lost. At some point we had to stop in a small village and ask someone for the road to Paris. They seemed unsure: "Paris?" I jumped in and said "Amiens" - a city half way towards Paris that we wanted to stop at. "Ah, Amiens," they said and pointed in one of the directions. We are still not sure if we were saying "Paris" *that* wrong or if we really did manage to find a place in France where people don't know which way Paris is. <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2005-05-28-b-amiens/20050528_014_0052 2005-05-28-b-amiens/20050528_018_6967 2005-05-28-b-amiens/20050528_020_5132 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2005-05-28-b-amiens/20050528_016_6105 2005-05-28-b-amiens/20050528_034_4031 2005-05-28-b-amiens/20050528_019_2135 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2005-05-28-b-amiens/20050528_012_4872 2005-05-28-b-amiens/20050528_030_3414 2005-05-28-b-amiens/20050528_031_8979 2005-05-28-b-amiens/20050528_038_9127 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> After driving for a while on a one-lane road we did get to Amiens, which was on our itinerary for its cathedral, one of the oldest in France. This was the first truly gothic cathedral (as opposed to "late gothic"), with flying buttresses, gargoyles, etc. In front of a cathedral we were approached by a group of kids dressed up as vikings who asked me to take a picture of them with my camera. Because of the language barrier (we were now in France, rather than English-speaking Flanders), I didn't quite understand what was the reason, but I figured they probably wanted to be blogged. Don't put anything here Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Page Content Template Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Don't put anything here save preview cancel
