I went to Amiens with 3 friends in April 2016, driving from Calais after having passed through the "Chunnel". The area close to the Eurotunnel’s southern end is rich in World Heritage Sites. Options included the city of Bruges, the 56 Belfries of of Belgium and France or even the 108 component parts of the Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin.

Seeing mounds of slag or individual bell-towers wasn’t quite enough to excite us, though, so the city of Amiens was chosen as our primary port of call.

We spent both our nights there in the city’s historic centre, drinking by the attractive Somme riverside.

The cathedral is imposing, impressive, clean and free to enter. We enjoyed the "stone encyclopaedia" on its main façade and the 42 metre high nave.