France .. c'est tres bon!

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This video says it all


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[Deleted Member I]

Nice and sunny on Friday morning .. we wait for everyone to turn up at the Eurotunnel

 

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Our first stop at somewhere historic!

 

[Deleted Member I]

After some indecisiveness, we ended up eating FRENCH food in our first evening in FRANCE

 

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Our first stop was Laon .. which was a pretty place

 

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Our second night and third night was in Troyes [edit for spelling - GM] .. which was very pretty

 

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Then I decided to go visit CHAMPAGNE .. or Reims [edit for spelling - GM] and EP..something

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Some expensive grape juice ..

 

[Deleted Member I]

That Taittinger caves are suppose to be below an old cathedral but it was destroyed in the French revolution. Now it's just a posh looking building

BUT here is the original staircase to the church above.

 

[Deleted Member I]

The snotty Moet and Chandon caves ..

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[Deleted Member I]

Once again thanks to Tour Dad for arranging a nice weekend away in France .. where he seems to KNOW EVERY ENGLISH BIKE RIDER!!!

 

[Aidan1150]

Looks like you got the weather for it Tom. Lovely.

How much are you making from this adventure?

 

[richie]

Non , mais non, France c'est tres bien...

C'est evident...

And hopefully you aint making rien pour cette adventure

 

[Deleted Member I]

Looks like you got the weather for it Tom. Lovely.

How much are you making from this adventure?

This ride report is PAY PER VIEW!

 

[Davy F]

Our first stop at somewhere historic!

Peronne.

The Historial de la Grande Guerre is an excellent trilingual museum, that traces the history of the first world war. It is situated in an imposing fortification which was severly damaged during the First World War and was liberated by the Australians on 2 September 1918.

 

[The White Rabbit]

Jeez, how are you going to get that lot up your nose

 

[thornley]

Jeez, how are you going to get that lot up your nose

Looks like it came down his nose

 

[Greg Masters]

Of course images like this are all tourist 'cons'.

Champagne production across the region is something like 10 bottles every second (to keep up with world demand for around 300m bottles each year).

I'd expect to see a little move 'process' happening than these images show. I'm sure they carefully cultivate this images for tourists but I'll bet that there are fecking great factories hidden away churning out the bubbles by the lorry-load!



Greg

 

[Eastriding2002]

Ep- something,

Epernay, where the Moet bottles are!