Ibis Chalons en champagne Châlons-en-Champagne

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 ove...

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Of all the stops planned for this trip, Reims is probably the one I was most looking forward to visiting. First of all, it was a new region of France for us – Champagne. Second, the town offered a little bit of everything – history, art, and, of course, the wine. I'll begin with the wine.

Though the tools h...

Having both agreed to travel back to Epernay the next morning we set off at 6am, travelling with a 'Fastest' GPS setting which got us onto a 130kph motorway for 77ks and the total distance was just 143ks. Much, much less than the night before and much less traumatic! And we got to see more Deer while they were catching the early morning su...

On to Epernay and it was FRENETIC. In France that weekend, private residences and places of heritage were opened to the public, free of charge. Epernay was the choice of half of France and NO accommodation. We were already late due to the ‘diversion’ and we ended up having to travel to Melun arriving at 9.30pm after visiting all...

Juniville. Couldn’t describe the ambiance of the place but it was sooo delightful. We spotted it through a narrow street access and drove back. There were 3 or 4 man made lakes and it seemed like there was a village fishing contest, with the lake being stocked by a guy on a
tractor, who while we were there drove around 3 times and scoo...

This past Friday Caroline, Angela and I took a day trip to Reims (pronounced 'Rhanes'... I still cant say it). Reims is one of the two largest cities for producing champagne, after all it is not called champagne unless it comes from the region in France by the same name. From anywhere else in the world it is just simply sparkling wine. Reims is ...

Birthday times are always exciting. It is generally an excuse to hang out with friends you have not seen in a while and have a few celebratory drinks. This year my birthday was no exception with the extra bonus of being taken away for a mystery weekend to celebrate by my two friends, Kerry and Martin. I had no idea where I was going and it was v...

This morning after breakfast we finished packing our bags and ordered a taxi. Our driver spoke not a word of English so in very poor French I told her we were going to pick up our rental car and showed her the address.

More than half an hour later was quite clear that we were lost. I translated the directions from the rental company to ...

1 weekend + 1 Renault Clio road boat truck (rated to 190km/h) + 1129 km + €60ish in change for toll fares + 11 hours 10 minutes google estimated drive time + €100 road boat truck diesel + 2 X 2 hour train transfers + 2 X 1 hour ferry transfers = 1 weekend in London/Dover/Calais/Reims/Epernay/Caen/ Omahaha beach/Calais/Dover/London. Bri...

May 23 Traveling with my parents, we took the train from Gare de l'est to Reims then walked to the hotel. We dropped off our luggage and went to eat lunch. Then we walked to the Cathedral and then back to the hotel. We stayed there until dinner which we had on the same road that we had lunch. After dinner, as my parents went to bed, I walked aro...