Day 4: December 27th
Hotel des Invalides & Shopping
Rusty took the rental car, so we needed somewhere close enough to our hotel to walk to. Russ wanted to check out the Hotel des Invalides and Susie felt like shopping, so we sent Russ out on his own and strolled the streets.
Chantilly, France
Rusty got back to Paris to pick us up around 4pm. We wanted to head out before traffic hit, so we decided to stop somewhere between Paris and Cambrai for dinner. I looked at a map on my phone and saw that Chantilly was about an hour away and was on our route. I had been wanting to go there to see a castle so the decision was easy, plus everyone was getting in the tired/hungry zombie phase...you know, when it's been a long day, you haven't eaten in forever, and making a decision on where to go and what to do next seems impossible, so I knew I had to act quick ;) Rusty entered it into the GPS and off we went.
As we were driving in, the castle was the first thing we saw. It was stunning. Sadly it was closed, so we weren't able to go inside, but it was so pretty I was happy just being able to see the outside.
The town was so quaint. There were paintings of horses on walls to celebrate the annual horse races that are held at the castle. I would love to come back and see them. We stopped in a cafe, which didn't end up having much food, so we all had soup as a snack and planned to eat dinner in Cambrai. But we ran into another problem since we didn't get back to Cambrai til about 11pm- both the food places we wanted to take Susie and Russ to were closed. We went into an open bar which also didn't end up having much of a menu, but, we noticed the people there had brought in food from other places. Right outside were a couple food trucks, so food trucks it was!
Eating food truck burgers and fries in a random bar may not have been the best meal ever, well except for the fries, those are actually really good. I guess we do call them french fries for a reason...although apparently it's a big debate whether northern France or Belgium created them...but enough of my fry tangent haha, our dinner in Cambrai was another unforgettable memory we can add to the list!
Chantilly, France
Rusty got back to Paris to pick us up around 4pm. We wanted to head out before traffic hit, so we decided to stop somewhere between Paris and Cambrai for dinner. I looked at a map on my phone and saw that Chantilly was about an hour away and was on our route. I had been wanting to go there to see a castle so the decision was easy, plus everyone was getting in the tired/hungry zombie phase...you know, when it's been a long day, you haven't eaten in forever, and making a decision on where to go and what to do next seems impossible, so I knew I had to act quick ;) Rusty entered it into the GPS and off we went.
As we were driving in, the castle was the first thing we saw. It was stunning. Sadly it was closed, so we weren't able to go inside, but it was so pretty I was happy just being able to see the outside.
The town was so quaint. There were paintings of horses on walls to celebrate the annual horse races that are held at the castle. I would love to come back and see them. We stopped in a cafe, which didn't end up having much food, so we all had soup as a snack and planned to eat dinner in Cambrai. But we ran into another problem since we didn't get back to Cambrai til about 11pm- both the food places we wanted to take Susie and Russ to were closed. We went into an open bar which also didn't end up having much of a menu, but, we noticed the people there had brought in food from other places. Right outside were a couple food trucks, so food trucks it was!
Eating food truck burgers and fries in a random bar may not have been the best meal ever, well except for the fries, those are actually really good. I guess we do call them french fries for a reason...although apparently it's a big debate whether northern France or Belgium created them...but enough of my fry tangent haha, our dinner in Cambrai was another unforgettable memory we can add to the list!
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| How cute is this window display? |
