Chartres Cathedral

So here we were on the last day of the trip.  Our hotel in Chartres was within walking distance of the famous cathedral, so that is where we went first.  It is a monumental and significant building, and you can read up on it here.  Here are some photos from our tour of this amazing place.

My interest here was being able to walk the 800 year old labyrinth that is located right in the middle of the main part of the building.  It is made of limestone inlaid right into the floor, and is 42’ wide.  Huge!  Even though our trip was scheduled so that we could do that, at the last minute, an event was planned and they needed the floor space for more chairs to accommodate the crowd, so we could not walk it.  That was a disappointment.  I actually do not feel too disappointed, as I was able to photograph the labyrinth, sit on it, meditate with it, and stand in the power spot right in the middle and soak up the sublime energy.  That seemed to be enough, as I am still feeling the heightened vibrations. 

I would not have been able to get the whole thing into a photo anyway as it was too large.  Here is a copy of a postcard, showing he labyrinth from above, that I bought in the gift shop.  To give you some scale, the brown rectangles at the top and bottom are actually rows of chairs!

Our last official activity was a stop at the National Archaeology Museum north of Paris in St.-Germain-en-Laye that houses a vast collection of Paleolithic artifacts.  The most fascinating one is a small head of a woman carved from mammoth ivory called the “Dame a la Capuche”.  It was excavated from a cave in the Pyrenees Mountains in the south of France in 1894, and is estimated to be about 25,000 years old! 

So there you have it.  I hope you found my travels interesting.  My trip home had some issues, as does all travel nowadays.  I did see Air Force One parked at the Charles De Gaulle Airport outside of Paris.  What a note to end on!