Reims, France
Monday, July 23, 2001
Champagne Day! After a small coffee, bread, butter and jam, we spend the morning and early afternoon walking around Reims and working on the Web site. At 3:15 p.m. we get a guided tour of the Pommery Champagne House - a factory of a world-famous champagne company where they prepare millions of bottles of champagne from the region. It's raining hard but we decide to run through the showers trying to find the vineyards. We give up after we are almost soaking wet and catch a bus back to the Internet café where the proprietor was kindly watching our luggage and stop at the grocery store along the way. We share bread, cheese and Jenni's newfound flame: walnut butter (which WE THOUGHT was peanut butter but tastes a lot like chocolate.) We open our bottle of champagne, which pops violently and sprays half the stuff out before we can get a handle on it. Joe is now fully drenched, but having fun! Tonight at 8:15 we catch the overnight train to Fussen, Germany in Southern Bavaria by way of Paris and Munich.