While staying at St. Germain en Laye in 1986 we take a days rest from the rigors of Paris sight seeing (#8) and drive via local roads to Senlis and Chantilly. The Senlis Cathedral has some nice stained glass, an interesting entrance and tower. After an overpriced lunch menu at a local restaurant we look thru the fence at the not open Roman ruins, then go on to Chantilly. This very large and beautiful palace on a lake has beaucoup good furnishings and paintings, and a great chapel. Back at the Motel Climat de France in St. Germain we eat a very good supper at the terrace buffet.
Leaving St. Germain we drive north via back roads to Beauvais, seeing some flat country, some rolling hills, but all green and productive. At Beauvais we ask at the tourist office for directions to a self service laundromat (laverie) to wash clothes. Our French isn’t that good since they direct us to some public baths! The Beauvais Cathedral is very tall with lots of light and some pretty stained glass. We drive on to Breteuil; asking a nice man on the street for directions to the Cap Nord Hotel; he isn’t satisfied we understand the directions, so gets in the car and shows us the way.
We visit Amiens from Breteuil, going first to the Museum of Picardy, seeing some well preserved XV & XVI century carvings. We find a laverie and wash and dry clothes (we gave up long ago trying to clean our clothes in hotel rooms when there are self service laundries available). The Amiens Cathedral is one of the most interesting we have seen, with beautiful carved choirs and screens, and is quite clean inside. We find a Herald Tribune, the English language newspaper which we rely on for news in Europe, and return to our Breteuil hotel to read and rest.
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