Started the day in Reims where we went to see the Cathedral. More beautiful on the outside than inside it was built in around 1211. To the French it was very important as it was the place that all the Kings were annointed and crowned. There is a chapel dedicated to Joan D'Arc who personally dragged Charles IV to Reims to have him "done" so that France would have a legitimate king to thwart the English.

During WWI it was occupied briefly by the Germans then retaken by the French however the city was then bombarded and the cathedral badly damaged, which is why so many of the windows are plain glass or reasonably new........... history lesson over!

one thing we've noticed is that where ever we go something is being cleaned or restored, but Reims is celebrating it's 800 year anniversary next year........ here you see the difference