Le Mans Cathedral

This morning we walked down to Cathedral St Julien, less than 10 minutes from our apartment. As we entered the little square by the cathedral, we were greeted by a fire truck cherry picker thing raised up to the cathedral roof. We were a bit worried that there was something wrong, but couldn’t see any smoke or anything so we assumed all was ok and maybe they were just inspecting it. The main door to the cathedral was open so we decided to head in for a look around straight away. Well, we thought we’d been pretty blown away by Limoges cathedral, but I think this one soon overtook it. The scale and height were absolutely immense, and the organ was being played as well which was pretty powerful.

By the time we’d finished here and made it to the cafe, we’d missed breakfast (the French are a bit more rigid in their mealtimes than us) and were too early for lunch (a very helpful lady who was just leaving the cafe and had seen us looking a bit unsure told us that we were unlikely to get anything now until 12) Our next stop was the 24 hour circuit and museum. We knew there was supermarket with a cafe on the way and we needed to stock up on snacks and drinks for the next day’s car journey so we headed there first.Read more