Le Relais Champenois
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Le Relais, Sedan
The best hotel in town, especially as we've been on the road 12 hours! Looking forward to a shower, as we are all soaking already from the heat. Sampling the local beer first though :-) Le Relais
Chablis
Left Epernay at 10, called into a shopping centre for breakfast of coffee and pain au chocolate ! Yum. The to supermarket to pick up picnic lunch supplies - baguettes, pâté, Brie cheese and ham and a bottle of Rose. En route now to Chablis to stay the night and visit the Cooperative for Chablis tastings. Later : Had great day , Chablis is a very pretty small town , our hotel is very nice and quaint. We walked all around, first to La ...
Champagne Showers
... wine. The terrain, chalk soils, is one of the things that makes the champagne great. Hannah is pretty sure that this is the same chalk formation that we saw in the Cliffs of Dover. The vines are only grown on hillsides because of the sun exposure and water drainage. The vines' roots grow up to 25 meters deep! These are just some of the things we learned during our drive.
We started our day in Epernay at the world’s ...
Champagne!
... Reims so we also got some good suggestions from it. We wandered around Epernay on a self-guided walking tour and then down the Avenue de Champagne which had been cleaned up nicely for the Tour de France which went through earlier in July. Lining the avenue were huge "Maisons de Champagne" in amazing buildings. You could tour many of them, but it was too late in the day and they were all closed. We went back to camp for a quick dinner and then ...
When in Champagne...
... It was a good decision, froma ll but a culinary perspective, but we will get to that later.
We stayed in a hot and stinky Ibis hotel in a good central, without air conditioning which was quite a shock at this point after having been lucky enough to have air conditioning for nearly all accommodation in the previous 2 months or so. Everything was quite central to this hotel, everything we needed was within a 10-15 minute walk which is always good. Having got an early ...