Champagne

I had planned a weekend trip away with Rach to Reims to taste Champagne to drown my sorrows about Matt leaving but as he was still here and Rachel was nice, Matt and I ended up going alone. I didn't have anything really planned for this trip but the Champagne houses have tours fairly often so it was great. The first place we went to was a lovely Art Nouveu style house (so gorgeous) and the champagne was pretty good too. Two full glasses each!

The next place we went to was Tattinger which had caves that we could visit. They are all old chalk quarries that keep the temperature really constant for when they ferment the champagne. They gave us a tour of the caves and gave us the blurb how they make etc. Got a bit bored of the 'talk' as we did it all over again the next day!

We got another 2 glasses of champagne there and then headed home for a nap.

We had a late dinner at this awesome seafood restaurant, we tried a tasting platter which had all sorts of crazy things (cold sea snails -urgh, tiny little shrimps and really good oysters!). The best part of dinner was my lobster risotto-doesn't it look yummy!

On Sunday, with our champagne tour booked for the afternoon we decided to explore a bit more of Reims. About 95% of the buildings were destroyed in the war and it was where the peace treaty was signed, the museum was closed for lunch so we didn't go inside but it gave us something to take a picture of other than champagne!

Waiting for our next tour at Pommery (one of the more famous caves) we had lunch in a park nearby-soaking up the sunshine. At Pommery we tasted 4 different types of Champagne, I thought Champagne was champagne but you could really taste the difference when you compared them all.
We (ok, Matt splurged) splurged on 2 bottles of champagne, one to take back for a special occasion and another to drink with Rach when we got home, hence the drunk photo below!
So after our wonderful weekend away, it was time for Matt to go home. I was so lucky to get an extra week with him (thanks appendicitis!) but wasn't too sad saying goodbye knowing I would be home in 3 months!