Grd Htl Continental Reims

We worked our way all the way up to Reims, the heart of the Champagne region. While Reims does have a pretty cool cathedral and I'm sure there is some historic stuff, we came for the champagne. We followed the Rue de Champagne down through all the little towns and Epernay. Then as was our luck, the Salon de Vins festival was taking place, so over 250 vintners from all over France were there to let us taste (and buy) their best. Some ...

... sorbet with a champagne liqueur, and a bottle of wine from Beaune &#8211; and our teacher friend was also kind enough to pass along some information on what teaching English in France is like.<br><br>Glenn and Pam Said:<br><br>Who would have thought you could find a restaurant/café on the main walking street named Ernest Hemingway in Reims? Besides the frequent cafes, our self-guided tour through the Notre Dame of Reims was enlightening. They had an old clock ...

The next destination on our itinerary was the Notre-Dame of Laon Cathedral. My pamphlet tells me this is "one of the earliest Gothic edifices constructed in France," so there you go. It's a lot different than the famous Notre Dame in Paris, being a lot less ordered and therefore more &#8220;exuberant.&#8221; It&#8217;s on a site that&#8217;s a lot higher than the rest of town, so you get lots ...

... for the day would include seeing the cathedral as well as atleast one champagne tasting. After consulting our handy travel books we decided on the Pommery champagne caves and possibly one other. Our goal was to set out around 9:30 am to buy tickets at the station for the 10:25 am train. Well... that didn't quite work out. <br><br>The night before was a classmates birthday so we celebrated for a little while with them before heading to a local (within 5 minutes ...

... spot which looked back on the town of Epernay and the surrounding vineyards to have our lunch.<br><br>It was soon after lunch that Ernest Hemingway came back to haunt us. One by one we fell victims to food poisoning and all pointed to those dodgy hamburgers. The drive back to the Channel Tunnel was a bit stop start and I felt sorry for Martin who had to drive us all the way home. We naturally got to see all the service stops on the ...

... on. It was already getting quite late in the day considering we still had more than five hours of driving ahead of us. We stopped only for food and in Rheims to check out the cathedral. We had planned to make a few trips along the route but we had also planned on being out of Paris a lot earlier in the day, and I have to work tomorrow, so we didn't get to have much fun driving through France.

... English aristocracy (we saw a picture in the sales area of the present Pommery family patriarch palling around with Prince Charles.) They hold three million bottles of champagne here and another 19 million in the more modernized site. At the end we quickly sampled several of their champagnes and stumbled our way over to a very small champagnerie called Martel, a few blocks away (coincidentally we had the same 4 pm reservations as Lauren and Andrew.) <br ...

Translation of the title: Where is the bus stop?   Answer: It depends on the day, the time of day, and whether or not the workmen are working.   Yes, Reims is putting in a lovely tramway...that I will never see because the work shan't be finished until 2010. However, we do have the lovely opportunity to see and hear fair portion  of the work that is going into it.    That includes, but is not ...

Ce 10 septembre, après un rapide petit déjeûner en face de la station de métro Pernety (d'où nous partons aujourd'hui), Pierre-Luc et moi nous préparons pour un long trajet de métro qui nous mène bien loin de l'autre côté de Paris ; quinze stations en tout ! Nous arrivons un peu avant 9 heures 30 à la gare de l'Est, et c'est en toute simplicité que nous achetons notre billet pour Reims. Encore mieux : dans le train, même si PL et moi voyageons en ...

... next to the Cathedral). It turns out that the tasting is for another of the hypermarkets that is about to open its Foire aux Vins (literally Wine Fair), which has good discounts on a huge selection of wine. It is a nice enough evening but not really conducive to serious wine tasting and it is a little difficult for Steve and I as everyone seems to know everyone else, despite thew fact that there are probably a couple of hundred people there (all invited guests).