The day is cool with some clouds, but no rain as we drive to Etain and have a pretty good lunch at the Hotel Sirene. Then on to Metz where the first four hotels we call are “compleat” (full), but we find a room 3 KM out in Montigny.
The next day is Sunday. We attend most of a service conducted by a bishop at the Metz Cathedral. We enjoy the chanting, but the choir isn’t spectacular. Leaving Metz we drive south along the Moselle River and have a very good lunch at the Horne Restaurant in Pont-A-Mousson. A family is celebrating a first communion at an adjacent table with the children all seated at the end of the table near us. We drive to Toul and see the cathedral and cloisters, and then by freeway to Nancy and the Albert 1st-Astoria Hotel where we watch French open tennis on TV.
Even early in June it is cloudy and cool in Nancy, with some rain. We walk to the Place Stanislas, then to the Historical Museum of Lorraine. It is an excellent museum, with exhibits from the stone age on; there is much about Stanislas, King of Poland and Duke of Lorraine, who was instrumental in rebuilding Nancy in the 1700’s. We have a good lunch at the Restaurant La Bonne Table, then return to the museum (still not seeing all of it) before walking, tired, to the hotel.
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