Chartres Cathedral...

We enjoy an evening stroll around Beaugency on the shortest night of the year, visiting each of the music venues, a Jazz Band outside a restaurant, a Swing singer in the market place, disco on the main square and Susan's choir in front of the post office, (which has the biggest audience). We also discovered Rue de Rû, a pretty street with a flower-edged river down the middle. A whole roast pig is soon demolished by families seated at long trestle tables. We bump into a French couple on a tandem, who we had camped next to at Amboise!
Next morning is a Sunday quiet cycle on farm roads through an undulating plain of cereal crops. Our WS hosts are in the small village of Amilly. After dinner, Florence so kindly drives us to Chartres to see the floodlighting of the city, not just the Cathedral, but other principal buildings, including the old Post office, theatre and several ancient bridges have moving film or pictures illuminating them. We are so impressed, having never seen anything like it and would't have known about it without Florence. Next morning , after waving goodbye to F, P and their 4 small boys (and the puppy), the pedal is virtually flat on a quiet route route into the middle of Chartres that Patrice helped us plan. We loved Chartres and its Cathedral, visiting it before tourist parties arrived.


The stained glass is amazingly detailed and colourful. Apparently it was removed and stored safety during WW2 to preserve it.


Then we pedal through very narrow old streets that are mostly car free, over the many little old stone bridges and out onto the countryside on a river route to Rambouillet. The campsite here is in a massive old wood. A walk in the evening takes us around a small lake.


Miles to date:- 2483

Location:Beaugency to Rambouillet