Quality Hotel Cathedrale Reims

... a hot pocket. It was very good, albeit messy; and went great with the Bordeaux that we had been trying. All in all, the Champage region treated us very well. But alas, our wine days are over. Now it is off to Paris to drop off the car and get back to the hostel living, metro taking, sight seeing routine. But at least we'll be doing it with some good wine for dinner. Here's hoping the rain that plagued us all week decides to take a break!

... 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 ...

... perfect lair for a comic-book villain, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that wasn&#8217;t what the builders were going for. One thing that&#8217;s kind of surprising about these churches is the fact that they don&#8217;t really have grand plazas or entrance courts like you would expect. The approach to Laon was basically winding street &#8211; another narrow winding street &#8211; another street ...

... Quick Burger is I think their equivalent of Burger King (since its not as yummy as McDonald's) and is pretty decent and very cheap. <br><br>We made our train in plenty of time and after our transfer in Epernay I fell asleep rather quickly until arriving back in Paris.<br><br>All in all we consider that our first trip out of Paris, without a tour guide, was extremely successful. We enjoyed every minute of it and are anticipating our next excursion... maybe to Bordeaux?!

... Our tour ended with a delicious glass of Taittinger Brut Reserve.<br><br>In to the swing of things now, we freshened up at our hotel before making our way to the balcony of Le Lion to relaxingly sip some Canard-Duchene while watching the Golden Angel of the Sube fountain glisten in the sunlight. Dinner at Bistrot de Boucher was a great end to the evening as we sampled Foie gras, honey coated duck and peppered steak but not before ...

... her credit cards in it.<br><br>We pulled off the highway and threw our belongings out of the car, searching everywhere for the wallet. But it was nowhere to be found. Mom thought it may have been stolen last night at the Eiffel Tower as at one point she looked down and saw her bag was open and wondered if she had left it that way.<br><br>We decided at this point there was little we could do but ...

... staying nearby so it is great as there is no proper camping platz in the city itself. Had a stroll all around town, lots of cafes and very nice arcades and the mandatory Cathedrale. Luke and Jules and Allegra arrived late afternoon so we went into town in the evening and joined the cafe set for dinner.

... 23 years old).  For example, the other day, I spent 45 minutes in an office with a group of people not believing in showers, in a large clump darting to the next window available even if you have an appointment to be there (because having a number system or forming lines clearly was out of the question), only to receive a receipt for an appointment in November to go back to the same office to give my papers to the ...

This morning we discover the bakery does not open on a Monday, which is a disaster now we have no milk or bread for breakfast after being booted out of the supermarket yesterday. In the end it was dry bread for breakfast and pikelets made with rice milk we discovered in the cupboard for morning tea. Richard headed off for work, a 25 minute walk by his calculations but in reality was more like 45 minutes. In the ...

... and would never actually be found again, while a guide explained the process of producing champagne to us. I didn't understand much about it (and not only because of the corps), but I found the image slightly amusing that there was a man hired to turn the champagne bottle a certain way every day. This was supposed to be a very important job. And the huge champagne bottle were fun as well. At the end, we got a glass of champagne each - except for me who got ...