Hotel Le Relais Champenois Sézanne

... and process, how much patience one must have before tasting the final product!

I have to admit that I was a little impressed by Moet...but primarily due to all the glam of the family fortune. I'm sure the family heavily pressured its sons to continue the tradition...

So here's the rest of my pictures, varying from the tour, to a stroll in the park!

... of paté and cheese, and 4 demi baguettes, ALL under the condition that we sing the French national anthem. Well, our group was extremely international (1 french/argentinian, 3 italians, 2 americans, and 2 spanish), but we sang the bits and pieces we mustered up.

Despite this embarrassing moment, we enjoyed the night salsa dancing and swimming.

Quite a night to remember! ;)

... to a lesser extent in the Netherlands.
This evening we are 100 kms down the road at Troyes. We are here 2 nights and we are already ebchanted with the Tudor style houses...we're sure that many of them nelong to the "crooked man"" as so many of them lean!!! Looking forward to exploring more tomorrow. No lift in the hotel and on the 2nd floor. No kettles provided in hotels so have been rationed for cups of tea!!!
So have a cuppa rather than a champagne for me!!

After another healthy breakfast (cereal, croissants, bread, cheese and ham, orange juice, tea, cofee), we walked down into Epernay town centre and found the covered market (Marche Couvert) to buy some supplies for a picnic lunch. The market was only about 2/3 occupied - apparently the rest of the stalls inside as well as some outside are full on Saturday morning. There was a good selection of lovely fresh produce and we bought some terrine, chorizo, and fruit and ...

Sadly, time to leave Paris - but happily, time to visit Epernay, which we had wanted to do 24 years earlier. Firstly, we wanted to visit one of our favourites from our earlier trip, St Chappelle. Last time, we had been in the evening to see a mediocre concert in this superb venue. Now, we were delighted to be there in daylight to see the full glory of the stained-glass windows. We returned to the hotel and spent a few minutes walking along Rue ...

WW1 Battlefield Tour - Epernay/Moet & Chandon Day 3 (We needed a break from the battlefields - so I put in this day away in Epernay - what a great day!) The hills surrounding Epernay are filled with vines; they are everywhere on the hills in this champagne region. It is covered with vines. Steve dropped us off at Moet and Chandon on Champagne St. We checked in ...

... of the owners were and what they kept down there. It was very damp and cool and the passages were narrow with low ceilings and it was very dark. One of the guys who works for IES who does the excursions decided that I was the one that he would continually come up behind and grab. I guess he was trying to make me scream but I didn't oblige him. I would only go so far as to yell "Holy sshhhhh...." All and all though it was a fantastic day. I think I ...

Bonjour peoples ... we're back in France! We decided on a little bit of culture along the way to Paris, so we headed for Epernay, the home of Champagne. Unfortunately when we arrived that night, we couldn't find any camping (sound familiar?) and had to drive back 35km the way we'd come! After a nice night at the campsite we found (free wifi), we headed back into ...

... ahi con Abbas, quien me habia seguido desde Limoges y siempre estaba listo para ir de fiesta. Con Abbas y sus amigos, anduvimos por todas las calles de Paris. Visitamos los sitios turisticos como la Torre Eifel, el Museo de Louvre, el Arco del Triunfo, Montmarte etc... e incluso, una escapada de tres dias a Normandie con Abbas y la pandilla de St. Denis y la visita al cementerio Pere Lachaise. Uno de mis ...