To be continued...

My arrival in the UK marks the end of my overseas travels for awhile. Now is the time to rest a bit, apply for some visas, watch TV, surf the Internet a lot, maybe buy a new motorcycle and some camping gear, see some movies (in English!), go to a motorcycle race, read some books, cut my hair, change my name, get sick, get healthy again, travel to some places on my own continent, and daydream about the big overland trip that I really wanted to do now but just didn't have the time for. I'll pick up where I left off in about 2 months, on a boat in the south of England.

Amiens Cathedral

I was in Amiens last year and saw the Cathedral from my car as I was driving through. I debated about stopping to visit but decided that parking in the city center wasn't worth the hassel, plus I had just been to Chartres Cathedral earlier in the same day and didn't think that Amiens Cathedral would be all that impressive. Later when I got home and read a little about Amiens I realized I'd made a big mistake. It was easy enough to fix though. On my way from Paris to Calais I picked a series of trains that would allow me stop in Amiens for an hour or so.

Le Palais Garnier

aka the Paris Opera House

The Louvre

Two more Vermeers, and an interesting section on The Arts of Islam, but mostly the Louvre is just a lot of crap you have to wade through to get to the good stuff. I was there for over four hours (until closing time) and didn't even cover half of it and didn't see much that interested me anyway. There is much to be said for a small museum that just has a bunch of really good pieces. So what if the Louvre has 35,000 pieces if only 350 of them are worth seeing.