And finally....Amiens and home..well nearly

Amiens
Detail of John the Baptist holding his head, doorway Amiens Cathedral.

The unique Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Amiens holds one of John the Baptists heads - Ross investigated this phenomena and found he had at least 3 heads! It is the tallest complete cathedral in France. Amongst its other treasures is a John the Baptist bone fragment, a brilliant labyrinth maze tiled on its floor and two high relief diorama's showing the death of a martyr on one side and John the Baptists beheading and presentation on platter to Salome on the other. A definite theme, wouldn't you say!


We would have liked to stay longer in Amiens as it seemed like an interesting place. Unfortunately the next morning we had to Eurotunnel it back to England. We found out the next day that our credit card had been skimmed at a teller machine in Amien - 620Euros before the bank stopped the card! The Czech bank was great, very quick to pick it up and willing to courier a new card to us the next day.