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    • TravelerAcross Europe
      2
      2211
      Day 30

      Rheims

      May 7, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      Dreich day here - the rain caught up with me- although the worst of it was before and after. 70k of cycling feels ( and should be) a rest day, so time to have a brief "degustation " of the fizzy stuff on the way through Epernay. Washing it down with the French equivalent of a sausage roll arguably was a bit insulting. Either way, after a glass of fizz everything went a bit pear shaped: my cycle computer stopped route finding for me, the rain started and then I had a hill! Haven't seen one of those since the Pyrenees!! Unfortunately it spat me out on to a busy A road in foggy wet conditions: not nice cycling. Was that my "champagne moment"? A laborious detour allowed me to experience the industrial estates on the outskirts of Rheims.😞 I'd started to question my decision to take this more urban route, but after a visit to the amazing Pommery champagne cellars- and the even more amazing -and huge- Rheims cathedral, it all seemed to make sense. First puncture today - notice the hissing at the doorstep of the hotel. Quick bit of glass removal and tubeless shoogling seems to have it fixed🤞Read more

    • TravelerMetz, Verdun und wir
      111
      Day 3

      Reims Stadtführung

      October 28, 2019 in France ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C

      Wir hatten Glück mit der Stadtführerin: Sie war charmant, gut strukturiert, eloquent und hatte viel Wissen. Fast zwei Stunden lang brachte sie uns Geschichte und Kunst der Kathedrale von Reims näher. Dann fütterte sie uns noch mit Happen zur Stadtgeschichte an.

      Nach Linsen mit Würstchen: die Ausstellung zum eigentlichen Waffenstillstand am Ende des zweiten Weltkrieg, der in Reims stattfand, im Nebengebäude einer Schule, wo sich auch das Hauptquartier der Alliierten befand. Hier wieder ein Kontrast : ein banaler Ort, ein weltbewegendes Ereignis. In Karlshorst wurde das Ganze angeblich nur der Russen zuliebe nachgestellt.      Read more

    • Carmel CarlsenVia Francigena - part 1
      2
      14
      Day 27

      Day 24 - Hermonville to Reims

      May 14, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

      The overcast day started with forest walking - fabulous. I shared the path with joggers, their dogs, cyclists, dirt bikes, quad bikes and one hiker (pilgrim status: unlikely - we had no common language and he had what appeared to be a day pack, with poles). The going was slow, with all the lefting and righting to find the best path through the puddles. The day ended with a lovely canal walk (Canal de l'Aisne a la Marne) into Reims. My accommodation crisis was solved by the tourist office (luckily, they were open on a Sunday), who managed to get me accommodation for tomorrow night. I had been unable to obtain accommodation for the next two nights and this way, I walk a little longer tomorrow and divert from the path for the following day - but it gets me where I need to be in two days time. I got a pilgrim stamp at the Cathedral in Reims and met an Australian pilgrim there; Sue, from Queensland. I did have a brut champagne last night at the Pizza place (I felt too daggy to try the French restaurant), and the hotel I'm in now has a vending machine where I have a choice of two champagnes (€40 or €50) however, I had my beer at the Earnest Hemingway Cafe and that will do me. Oh, and I broke Find Penguins tonight by trying to upload 11 photos. The only way I could get the app to work was to buy a premium membership - beware. P.S. those spots in that pond are frogs, it was magic to hear the croaking.Read more

    • TravelerMetz, Verdun und wir
      Day 3

      Pommery

      October 28, 2019 in France ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

      Besuch einer der bekanntesten Champagnerkellereien. Ich weiß jetzt, dass Champagner zweimal gähren muss den Rest habe nicht verstanden.
      Henri, der junge Mann, der uns durch die Keller geführt hat, hat mir dann noch ein besonderes Schöppchen eingeschenkt. Das war wirklich ein Genuss.
      Prost      Read more

    • 1st Trip to Europe in Leo
      12
      Day 10

      You can keep your Bolly Darling…..::

      September 20, 2022 in France ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      What a fabulous day! Cycled to railway station in Chalons en Champagne, bikes on train to Reims and cycled to Taittenger Champagne House.
      Tour of the 4km underground caves where the bottles are hand riddled and stored to mature into the bubbly stuff we all know and love. Then up to the surface for a Tatty Tasting - Yummy!Read more

    • TravelerVia @ 70
      Day 18

      Reims 22 miles

      July 30, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

      I have briefly mentioned before my two mates who are travelling with me. We are inseparable. Before the trip we got on fine but over the past couple of weeks I have not been getting on too well with one of them. We start each day on good terms, and over breakfast, on those days I get such a thing, nothing is said but as soon as we get going the grumbling starts and it just seems to get louder as the day wears on. On the long days we are pretty much shouting at each other by the time we finish. However today, for the first time, we were all quite chummy for ages. I think, and hope, that our relationship may just have turned a corner. It was a 22-miler so plenty of time to fall out. Only 15 miles tomorrow. Surely we can stay civil to each other for that long. I feel that I have done my best, always smear on Compeed anti-blister stick before we set off and slather on plenty of CCS cream after the night-time shower. He has two main complaints. The wee blister on the end of my second toe has not changed much but isn’t so painful nowadays. The large blister which was on the ball of my foot in line with the second toe seems to have moved along a little each day leaving fairly robust, or numb, skin behind. Just thought you would like to know.

      The bearded pilgrim, who I met in Canterbury, still the only other pilgrim I have met, was very vocal in declaring that the French were very rude to him. He had been swore at, shouted at and even spat on. He thought it was a Brexit thing. “They hate the British now.” It seemed to be his abiding memory of travelling across France. Made me a little nervous as I was about to spent 6 weeks doing just that. I am still less than half way across France but I haven’t come across any bad feeling at all. In fact it is remarkable how almost everyone I pass acknowledges me with a “Bonjour” and/or a wave. Possibly a haircut and a shave might have been a good idea for him.

      A very curious coincidence occurred as I wandered into Reims. I spend most of my walking time listening to Desert Island Discs as I have mentioned before. Got through nearly 300 of them. This one was Christina Lamb, journalist, who told a story about meeting a politician from Pakistan called Benazir Bhutto and I noticed that I was walking through a park dedicated to the same person. What are the odds on that I wonder?

      In a sort of Travelodge hotel tonight and the only practical eatery nearby was a Buffalo Grill. Didn’t manage to finish my burger dinner but they did give me a litre carafe of chilled tap water that was lovely.      Read more

    • TravelerBubbles Bucketlist Birthday
      Day 5

      Santé ! 🍾🥂

      April 19, 2022 in France ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

      Champagne has always been my choice of poison (that and the quest to find the world's best Cosmopolitan), so the real reason for our trip begins today. A bucketlist to visit some of the best Champagne houses in the Champagne region!

      We hired a car from Paris and spent the next couple of days between Reims and Epernay visiting around 8 Champagne houses and popping in to few more. Hundreds of kilometers of underground Cavès and thousands of hectares of vineyards go into supplying the globe with 350 million bottles of bubbly a year. At some houses we were 30 metres underground in 10 degree chalk pit caves and saw where century old bottles of champagne are still kept.

      Pictures just don't do it justice. The buildings and architecture are breathtakingly beautiful, second only to the golden nectar that we tasted!

      First up, Pommery (where I shrunk Karl) and one of my all time favorites, Taittinger 🇨🇵      Read more

    • TravelerTågluffning
      13
      Day 17

      Reimes

      August 28, 2019 in France ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

      Reimes är ju ’champagnens huvudstad’. Här är allt präglat av champagne. Man behöver inte åka ut på vingårdarna, alla kända märken är representerade med eleganta byggnader i stan. Enorma källare där champagnen får sin andra jäsning innan den går till försäljning, en vanlig champagne 3 år, en riktigt fin 10-12 år. Vi var på Taittinger, som är det äldsta champagnemärket och tittade på deras enorma källare 18 meter under jord med en temperatur på 10-12 grader. Svalt och mörkt ska det vara! Vi fick en utförlig lektion i champagneframställning. Efter den förstår man att en flaska kostar några hundra. Fick vi smaka champagne? Såklart!Read more

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    • MainelyStinaCamino de Santiago
      21
      Day 3

      Champagne & Cathedrals, Part 1

      August 17, 2023 in France ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F

      Last night’s arrival into Reims felt quite late. Finally arrived at my rented apartment around 10pm. I pretty much collapsed at that point after about 36 hours of travel. But today was spent indulging in the finest Reims has to offer! My first stop was Champagne Ruinart - a wonderful tour les by Amandine. Smart, funny, a fantastic guide. Amazingly, and for the only time on this trip, the group was all Americans. After leaving Ruinart, I grabbed a quick lunch - the French can make a sandwich! Baguette, lettuce, tomato, a bit of tuna, and sliced hard boiled egg! Amazing! I toured the St Remi Basilica. Massive and beautiful! From there I visited Veuve Clicquot! Is there anything more inviting that that beautiful yellow?? I bought a stupid and heavy souvenir, but I love it. I had planned to visit Pommery, but the champagne was too heavy, so I returned to the apartment before making my 2mile walk to GH Mumm (pronounced Moom). Good tour, but excellent tasting! The Mumm RSRV is fantastic! I quickly made my way down to Notre Dame de Reims - a cathedral larger than Notre Dame de Paris and where many of France’s king were coronated. I collapsed back at the apartment after a quick run to the grocery store! More tomorrow!Read more

    • Traveler5 girls do Europe
      Day 9

      Reims doesn’t fail to impress

      September 12, 2023 in France ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

      What a gorgeous city, slow paced and beautiful. Loulou and Beth up early and off for a reconnaisance walk to suss the area out. They found the cathedral and how close we are to everything, and came back to tell us all about it. After a quick bite we were off, searching for coffee and looking at clothes shop, and yes we have helped the economy very slightly (baggage weight issues). Beautiful buildings everywhere, people are friendly, pleasantish temperature.
      So today was Louise’s day-she wanted to do the champagne places - so she was tour director for the day 🤪.
      Couldn’t believe it when we saw a place called Eden Park so of course the two rugby nuts needed a pic.
      We had a superb lunch at a wee place in town -the biggest Cos Salad you have seen in your life for most of the party, I had this gorgeous ham salad on like a pastry bun, delicious. A lovely bottle of Rose went down nicely, then the rain came…. and I mean it poured for about 20 mins…. cooled the temp down rather well too.
      Conductor Kiely had us catching a bus and off we went to Veuve Cliquot… no tour times available but it was a great photo opportunity.
      A walk up a hill 😵‍💫 and along the way, we came across the most marvellous Vranken Pommery Champagne House. Wow what a place, what a story about an amazing woman Jeanne-Alexandrine Pommery who after becoming a widow at an early age, took the world by storm introducing their champagnes. She is know as a true trailblazer, the basis for luxury product promotion: the style, the brand, the communication and public relations. She invented the image of the Pommery Brand.
      The vineyards are built on top of Chalk quarries/Pits and it took more than 10 years to build the exterior buildings, plant 25 hectares of vineyards and dig the 18km of interconnected galleries that link the 69 chalk pits to one another.
      We went down the 116 steps to the cellar, and OMG there in front of us were all of these artworks displayed. Breathtakingly spectacular, utilising the chalk pits to highlight the art. I was gobsmacked. The temperature was amazing 30 metres underground, perfect temperature for the champagne to mature within the bottles. We all absolutely loved the experience and were so please Loulou had insisted we do it. We got a complementary glass of champagne at the end and it is quite delicious.
      The walk back up the 116 steps after our goat climbing a couple of days (well for Beth and I) was challenging on the knees and back and we are paying for it.
      Anyhoo we hopped back on a bus and off we went….allllll over the city… end of the work day dropping off all of the locals at their neighbourhoods and after about 30 mins we alighted and made our way home. Time for a rest then off out for a bite to eat.
      Have to say so far we haven’t really had the best experience with service or food but hoping to improve.
      Look up the Pommery Champagne - its bloody interesting.

      Lots of photos today cos its all just so amazing…from just walking around, the pictures of nuns are from the bathroom where we had lunch - to the champagne houses… and that Art! wow…Pommery collection I will add to another post cos they won’t fit      Read more

    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Reims, رانس, Горад Рэймс, Реймс, Remeš, Ρενς, رنس, ריימס, ランス, რეიმსი, 랭스, Durocortorum, Reimsas, Reimsa, Ремс, रेंस, Rems, رائیم, แร็งส์, 兰斯

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