A couple of weeks ago, I went to Reims with Mr and Mrs Redneck. We didn't know much about champagne (other than how to drink it, which we are all very, very good at), so where better to find out about it than in Reims, the champagne capital of France, and therefore the world? So we set off for a day of sightseeing (Reims cathedral and the Basilica St-Remi), education (touring a champagne house), and general merriment (the drinking of many samples of champagne). In fact, our merriment factor was cranked up so far by the end of the day that we just had to keep it up on our train journey back to Paris. We had planned to visit the bar car, but it was closed - and there we were, with a bottle of champagne that the Rednecks had purchased. So, since it was an emergency, naturally we popped the cork and drank the champagne straight from the bottle (much to the disgust of the French people around us on the train). Oh yeah, you just don't get much classier than that... Anyway, some photos from the day. Enjoy!
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| Snowy fields shot from the train window |
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| Reims - home of champagne and pink buses |
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| Reims - looking mighty picturesque |
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| Reims cathedral exterior detail - souls being dragged off to hell |
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| Reims cathedral exterior detail - seriously freaky bizarro gargoyle |
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| Reims cathedral exterior detail - is this the patron saint of beer? |
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| Reims cathedral exterior |
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| Reims cathedral exterior |
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| Reims cathedral exterior detail - close up of the highest point of the previous photo |
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| Reims cathedral exterior |
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| Reims cathedral exterior - more of the freaky bizarro gargoyles |
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| Reims cathedral interior |
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| Reims cathedral interior - stained glass designed by Marc Chagall |
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| Reims cathedral - it's ridiculously tall |
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| Champagne tour - learning the different sizes of bottles. I like the one on the left... |
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| Champagne tour - GH Mumm |
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| Champagne tour - GH Mumm vintage vault |
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| Champagne tour - GH Mumm's vast underground tunnels |
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| GH Mumm - first tasting of the day |
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| Basilica St Remi |
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| Basilica St Remi - interior detail |
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| Basilica St Remi |
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| More tastings at GH Martel |
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| And at Pommery |
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| The beautiful buildings at Pommery |
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| The beautiful tasting at Cazenove - last stop of the day |
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