After only 4 hours of sleep on the plane, getting through immigration, getting a car and driving a couple hours to Reims, first on the agenda is to find toilets. Public toilets are hard to find, and usually require a bit of change payment.
Welcome to European (You're a pee-in' in public) toilets!
Then we needed food! I had a 'hot salad' with fried gizzards that was delicious. The boys went for hamburgers... and Tim enjoyed a nice cold beer.
All around Reims (look down the street... I was eating, so didn't get up) you'll find Art Deco buildings. Leveled in WWI, it re-built, and was untouched in WWII.
I love Europe. This is across the street from the Gauloise, where we ate, and the bells tolled.
While waiting to go on the champagne cave tour, we found this church right across the way.
As always, the churches have beautiful sculptures and stained glass. There weren't many folks there, and that was fun because William got to see what a church is like without the hoards of people.
I love the architecture of the Tudor style.
This is a place to buy booze... Timothy's!
Someone's door. How cool is this?!?
We found this stool cute at the Tourist Information Center.
We finally find the Martel Caves!
There were many caves at different levels, but this seemed the deepest.
Of course, we were always taking the same exact shots of cool, old equipment!
An old lantern...
The turn these bottles a little each day to let the sediment go to the top of the bottle.
Looking up one of the ways they'd lift the champagne out of the caves.
Graffiti is nothing new, is it?
Maxim's has different champagne companies provide for them every few years, this is the plaque for the last time they were the supplier for Maxims.
And then, finally we tasted it! William had grape juice. We went for the best quality champagne tour, and it was delicious and refreshing!
Brut, sec and demi-sec. The sec (dry) is actually the sweeter.
Okay, NOT what we want to eat! :)
On the bus back to downtown.
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