This weekend we were planning on going to Bruges, Belgium, but the weather was supposed to be really cold and rainy/snowy which didn't seem like it would be great for walking around in so we joined the entire AIFS crew and headed on busses to Chartres. Lovely city, nice cathedral, although I saw a lot of the city and not much of the inside of the cathedral due to Finn's vocalizations during the tour of the cathedral. It was a chilly, grey, overcast, drizzly kind of day. Perfect for wandering around the ancient city of Chartres. Lovely town (see pictures) with cobble stone streets, but not cobbled for tourists. At least it didn't feel like it. Nice town, 800-1000 years old or so. Fun to wander the narow winding streets in the drizzle and ponder what the last millenium had been like in Chartres.