My wife and I took a train to Amiens from Paris in July to watch the end of Stage 5 of the Tour de Paris. We arrived early enough to walk around the town center and spend om time in the cathedral.

As a history teacher I knew of the history of the cathedral (its height, the cracks, the chain, etc) but it was thrilling to see them.

While it is sad that the cathedral has lost most of its stained glass to the World Wars the fact that most of the glass is now clear makes the cathedral much more illuminated than others and really accents the height of the structure.

Like others I found the statues to be amazing the and the WWI memorials to be quite touching.

Unfortunately,didn't get to linger long after the race as several open air restaurants looked quite good and the prices were much lower than Paris.

Hope to return.