Anyway we drove into Reims today for a look around but not before I took the following photo looking out to the vineyard
Reims is dominated by the Cathedral (Notre-Dame De Reims) which was built in the French Gothic style in the years 1211-1275 and was used for the coronations of numerous Kings of France the first being Louis VII Le Bon in 1223. It is a massive structure covering 71,600sq ft with 2 towers 81m high, in the south tower there are two bells one of which weighs more than 10,000 kilograms, and the cathedral receives about one million visitors annually.
The city itself is flat and well laid out in much the same way as was Dijon, pedestrian areas, streets at right angles to each other and of course the mandatory statues and water features.
Joan of Arc
One thing that we noticed was how cheap the parking was - €5 for approximately 4 hours in a central city covered car park.Last evening we went to a neighbouring village for dinner, Jonchery-sur-Vesle - we deliberately went there early and had a walk around and we were very taken with the style of houses particularly in Rue de La Gare. Having been used to seeing a similar style all through France - one or two storeys high in a light brown coloured concrete/cement - it was nice to see something different
This house was like something out of a fairytale story
Tonight we go to another village - Hermonville - around 10kms away to try a restaurant there. What we have found is that if you don’t reserve a table particularly in smaller villages you are likely to arrive and have to move on. Even in Dijon, a city blessed with 100s of restaurants we saw 10s of couples turned away from restaurants we were in as they hadn’t made a booking and there didn’t seem to be a second sitting time available - one restaurant that we went to twice, Le Bouchon du Palais, was only open from 7pm to 9pm.Kms driven today: 68
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