Chalons en Champagne and Detours

Our first day out of Paris we drove to Luxembourg. On the way, we got off of the autoroute randomly at a town called Chalons en Champagne (sorry I can't make this make accent marks). This was a pretty, but very down-home, town with half-timbered buildings and what appeared to be a very ancient (somewhat decrepit) church with cool gargoyles. Pictures follow. We found our way to the busiest restaurant in the center of town, and had an inexpensive lunch, which was topped off by wildly delicious black forest cake and chocolate mousse. (The diet has been history so far). We walked around the town for a bit and then got back in the car. On the way north from Metz to Luxembourg we ran into a detour, which seemed to threaten to take us to Brussells, so we exited the expressway and managed to wend our way on very narrow streets through very small villages in a very light but annoying rain. We finally made it to Suzie's friend Stacie's house in a village called Flaxweiler, northeast of Luxembourg.

The next day we toured Luxembourg and met ... THE WILD COWS OF FLAXWEILER.