Hotel de L'Ouest Chartres

357 Place Pierre Semard Chartres, Centre, France

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Versailles and Chartres

A travel blog entry by billnpat

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... with just a very few strollers out and about, and the occasional glimpse of a few patrons in the warmly lit restaurants and bars. It felt so much like we were strolling back into the middle ages… beautiful!

January 5, 2012

We spent the morning strolling around Chartres some more, seeing it in the daylight. It was a very windy and squally morning, but we still enjoyed seeing the town. The cathedral itself ...

Peter's version - he posts at last!

A travel blog entry by woodsies

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... I recharged my new Orange SIM card this morning at the train station newsagent; amazing what you can do with a few words and impersonations of Marcel Marceaux. The reason I needed to recharge was that despite having what I thought was a reasonable €20 at installation of the SIM, the fifteen minutes between the Orange shop and sitting down with our macaroons I had tried to access the Internet, and voila - down ...

Built in thirty years.

A travel blog entry by woodsies

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... to the information about the windows and sculptures. Although advertised as open,but the crypt and the bell tower were not, a great disappointment to Peter especially, who really wanted to climb the 350 step spiral staircase. I was OK with a raincheck!

Then the wander through the old town and various attempts to buy a few small things. It was market day and the covered area just teemed with fruit, vegetables, meat, cheese and lots of deli type stalls. ...

Parlez vous Francais?

A travel blog entry by woodsies

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... we ate the packed food kindly supplied by Wendy at the B and B. We were in France! No one even looked at our ticket!

You see the cathedral first from the train, soaring up above everything else, its copper roof gone green. It's the reason everyone comes to Chartres. Once again, hindsight says we should have taken a taxi to our accommodation but we wanted to walk the kilometer and soak in the town. We probably walked two in the end as our place was hidden down a ...

A day at Chartres

A travel blog entry by gillianf

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... which was built in the 12-13th centuries and was only a 10 minute walk from the station. It is famous for its stained glass windows which survived both world wars as they were removed piece by piece and put in a safe place. The front of the Cathedral has 2 different styles of towers, one was built in the 13th century and the other in the 16th century.

When I arrived there mass was being held so I climbed up the north tower. This ...

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