Still raining! We hung out in the apartment and watched sport on tv all morning, then headed to a local Greek restaurant for a feast for lunch. As soon as we walked out the door it just hosed down so all of us had very wet feet by the time we made it 50 meters up the road!
In the afternoon we focused on packing and sorting ourselves out. Koen is staying in Belgium as he has to work, Al is catching the Eurostar train to London and Choc and I are going to France. Choc dropped Al off in Lille to catch her train, and then we continued on to a little town just outside of Epernay, to our accommodation. We arrived at the guest house about 8pm, and had a lovely huge room. The house is owned by a French couple who have extremely limited French so just as well Choc knows some (she works in the french part of Belgium and Koen has fluent french), and is located overlooking a canal. A number of canal boats were pulled up out the front - obviously the way a number of people get around the area and they have bicycles on the boats so they can ride around the towns.
Choc and I had brought with us a picnic of cheeses, foie gras and bread so had a little picnic on the bank of the canal, and then went for a wander around the town - doesn't take long as it is small, whilst we still had day light. One champagne house we passed I knew of Billiecart-Salmon, so we will see if we can pop in for a tasting. We managed to find out way through vineyards up to the highest point of the town where there was a statue of the Virgin Mary. Fabulous view from the top. By this stage it was 10pm, getting dark and time for bed so we wandered back for our beauty sleep.
In the afternoon we focused on packing and sorting ourselves out. Koen is staying in Belgium as he has to work, Al is catching the Eurostar train to London and Choc and I are going to France. Choc dropped Al off in Lille to catch her train, and then we continued on to a little town just outside of Epernay, to our accommodation. We arrived at the guest house about 8pm, and had a lovely huge room. The house is owned by a French couple who have extremely limited French so just as well Choc knows some (she works in the french part of Belgium and Koen has fluent french), and is located overlooking a canal. A number of canal boats were pulled up out the front - obviously the way a number of people get around the area and they have bicycles on the boats so they can ride around the towns.
Choc and I had brought with us a picnic of cheeses, foie gras and bread so had a little picnic on the bank of the canal, and then went for a wander around the town - doesn't take long as it is small, whilst we still had day light. One champagne house we passed I knew of Billiecart-Salmon, so we will see if we can pop in for a tasting. We managed to find out way through vineyards up to the highest point of the town where there was a statue of the Virgin Mary. Fabulous view from the top. By this stage it was 10pm, getting dark and time for bed so we wandered back for our beauty sleep.
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