Champagne, onion soup, and a stunning night sky

 A few key learnings for the day:

• A 25 year old introvert business student from the UK who doesn’t know anything about wine, is probably not the best tour guide to get for a day in Champagne;
• The new mass producers of champagne (I’m looking at you Nicolas Feuillatte and Louis Vuitton) have sucked all the romance out of a glass of bubbles;
• Notwithstanding the above two points (and some previous comments by this blogger) there are some awesome yanks around who make days like today just great fun and loads of laughs;
• I didn’t think it was possible, but the bat-shit crazy Parisian drivers are even more bat-shit crazy than the bat-shit crazy Italians;
• There are no roundabout rules in Paris, and, in absolute fact, cars are not insured for the roundabout at the Arc de Triomphe (look it up, it seriously an exclusion in insurance policies in France);
• Il Timoteo is right: Onion Soup in Paris is freaking elite and should be consumed for breakfast lunch and dinner;
• The Eiffel Tower is amazing, and even more so lit up and twinkling at night;
• I ❤️ Paris.

I don’t think I’ve got a lot more to add.  Wouldn’t recommend the champagne tour - too long in the bus in awful traffic, and the tour we did left a lot to be desired, except the 6 Americans who made up the rest of our tour who were awesome.  No regrets doing it, but it’s all very corporate now, the romance is gone, and there is not enough red wine during the tastings. 

Eiffel at night was an absolute highlight, we are staying other end of the city so hadn’t had a chance to see it till tonight.  Great dinner in its shadow then watched it, and Paris, come alive.  Great city, have loved our visit.  Only one day to go!

Early start

Notre-dame in Reims

Cellars at Michel Fagot in Champagne

Doesn’t pay to fall behind in these events

It takes dexterity to catch up

Elite