Reims - a City of Art and History Champagne alone is enough to attract visitors to Reims. This city is home to distinguished champagne brand names like Veuve Clicquot, Taittinger, Pommery, Mumm, Lanson, Martel, Ruinart, Canard-Duchêne and Piper-Heidsieck. The Champagne City With such a concentration of brand name champagnes, there can be no doubt that Reims is a city with a serious champagne reputation. And for the visitor who's interested in visiting the cellars of Reims, there are … [Read more...]
Tour de France – Le Tour 2010
January 10, 2010 by
From Rotterdam to Paris Champs-Élysées: The 97th Tour de France will start from Rotterdam on Saturday July 3rd and finish on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on Sunday, July 25th, 2010. This year's race will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages covering a distance of 3,600 kilometres. Race Stage Profiles 1 prologue 9 flat stages 6 mountain stages and 3 summit finishes 4 medium mountain stages 1 individual time-trial stage (51 km). Particular features of this year's race le … [Read more...]
Dreams of the GR3 Saumur – Orleans
January 4, 2010 by
Saumur on the Loire River, France .Feb 11 – Tuesday (some years ago) REIMS, FRANCE I plan to walk from Saumur to Orleans along the GR3 Trail. A big hearty breakfast and off to the station. Ten minutes before the train pulls out – a bomb scare. The police arrive, but don’t find anything. I miss my connecting train to Paris. Pain! At Epernay they stop a Paris-bound train, so I finally arrive there about 12.00. I manage to get a train to Saumur. Six hours on trains today. Saumur is the … [Read more...]
Food in Northern France
May 25, 2009 by
Food in Northern France: a brief gastronomical tour! Le Nord; Picardy; Champagne; Alsace and Lorraine Dunkerque; Calais; Boulogne; Le Touquet; Lille; Arras; Amiens; Beauvais; Chantilly; Compiegne; Epernay; Reims; Chalons-en-Champagne; Troyes; Nancy; Strasbourg; Verdun; Colmar; Riquewihr. Food in Northern France is both hearty and full of solid flavours - eating and drinking to satisfy the hungriest gourmet! On the coast seafood is popular, especially mussels, but a colder, wetter climate … [Read more...]