Last weekend we took a trip to France. It's been a busy week and the posts about this trip will trickle in over the next couple of days. We set off through a snowy Belgium on Saturday, stopped at a French town for lunch that was nice but not in our guidebook so I have thus forgotten its name. But - our first destination was Rheims (pronounced rahns with a nasal accent) for its famous cathedral. All French students, including me, learn about the cathedral at Rheims. It was huge, as you might expect, and French kings were coronated here for centuries. One of them was coronated sometime in the 1400s and had Jean d'Arc at his side. There was a statue of her in the cathedral. It was awe-inspiring on the inside. We especially liked the rose windows (third photo).
Eliot was OK with the cathedral and all, but after our visit to the cathedral we wanted to check out the cool library that was just across the square from the cathedral. The cathedral was reflected in the floor-to-ceiling windows at the library. Eliot ran right in the library, zipped past circulation, and careened straight to the childrens' section. Not sure if he has a homing device for childrens' libraries....? He started investigating all the books. Here he is flipping through one. We found the french version of Goodnight Moon (Bon Soir Lune), too. After the cathedral it was back in the car for Eliot's nap and the rest of our trip to Dijon. For the most part, the scenery in France between the Belgian border and Dijon was like Kansas, but just a smidgen quainter. I will eventually post a photo album from this trip.
Last weekend we took a trip to France. It's been a busy week and the posts about this trip will trickle in over the next couple of days. We set off through a snowy Belgium on Saturday, stopped at a French town for lunch that was nice but not in our guidebook so I have thus forgotten its name. But - our first destination was Rheims (pronounced rahns with a nasal accent) for its famous cathedral. All French students, including me, learn about the cathedral at Rheims. It was huge, as you might expect, and French kings were coronated here for centuries. One of them was coronated sometime in the 1400s and had Jean d'Arc at his side. There was a statue of her in the cathedral. It was awe-inspiring on the inside. We especially liked the rose windows (third photo).
Eliot was OK with the cathedral and all, but after our visit to the cathedral we wanted to check out the cool library that was just across the square from the cathedral. The cathedral was reflected in the floor-to-ceiling windows at the library. Eliot ran right in the library, zipped past circulation, and careened straight to the childrens' section. Not sure if he has a homing device for childrens' libraries....? He started investigating all the books. Here he is flipping through one. We found the french version of Goodnight Moon (Bon Soir Lune), too. After the cathedral it was back in the car for Eliot's nap and the rest of our trip to Dijon. For the most part, the scenery in France between the Belgian border and Dijon was like Kansas, but just a smidgen quainter. I will eventually post a photo album from this trip. 
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