Champagne

Today’s plan was Champagne country, in the region of Reims. After a long lie (late train back from Paris last night and 30 mins walk back to campsite), we gently headed off via some food shops. This included a surprisingly challenging quest of buying milk for Alex’s tea. It seems that when the French get hold of milk they turn it into cheese but eventually some was found in the biggest supermarket we’ve yet seen.
Once we’d got onto the Route de Touristique de Champagne we were astounded by the multitude of producers - around a dozen small to large ones in every village and vines as far as the eye could see. We found an excellent wee campsite to stay in attached to the family run Norwack Champagne. An intimate site with an excellent, warm and sparklingly clean shower block with table tennis, table football, barbecue, and sheltered seating indoors and out. We never got around to buying any Champagne in the region in the end because we saw all of Norvack’s kit when we went into pay and three of the other five people staying were English and travelling the region tasting and buying Champagne. They were kind enough to share a couple of their purchases with us...

This it our sleeping set up in the TLC (Toyota Land Cruiser, very snug.