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Published: January 7th 2013
Garbage Tree
Big tree made out of plastic stuffLise made an appointment at Pommery, a champagne business in Reims. We got tickets to take a 1 hour in la cave, or the wine cellar. We arrived early and went on a 45 minute walk around the area. We found the St. Rémi cathedral and some very old buildings. Famous quote of the day happened here:
“Hey look it’s an old house! It’s probably older than your country!”- Lise
The streets were very old and you could see some exposed areas where the older cobblestone was peeking through the new asphalt. There were some statues outside of St. Rémi and Lise decided to pretend she was a famous statue called “the Tourist.” There was also a statue of St. Rémi and Clovis, but someone had put a map under Clovis’ arm so it looked like he was asking for directions. St. Rémi was also pretty with lots of stained glass and a huge organ but we had to hurry because mass was starting soon and we had to get back to our tour.
We arrived at Pommery and went into the waiting area. The lobby was very strange and included huge casks of wine, an upside down
Pommery
The wine cellar looks a lot like a castle paper maché elephant, and a house with rain falling inside of it indefinitely. We decided to take a tour in French because I wanted to practice my French. When we were buying our ticket and Lise talked me to in English, the salesman became fairly unpleasant and was saying things in French like “I SUGGEST that you buy the tour in English because it isn’t fair to the others to translate into English when they paid for a French tour.” I was confident in my French and this guy was being a jerk so we decided to take the French tour anyway.
The wine cellar was pretty huge and had something like 600,000 bottles of wine on display for tourists. They didn’t explain too much of the making champagne process because much of the process happened outside of the wine cellar. To be honest, it felt more like a museum than a wine cellar. There were a lot of artists who decided to display their art in the wine cellar rather than elsewhere. There were also some local legends that the guide had no explanation for, like a huge dinosaur egg looking thing. The original artist gave no real
explanation for his art so now people are just guessing as to the artist’s intent. At the end of the tour we were each given a glass of champagne. I received the champagne Brut and Lise got the Champagne Rosé. The Brut was less sugary than the rosé but Lise preferred the dryer taste. The rosé was easier for me to drink since I’m pretty inexperienced with champagne but I also preferred the Brut.
After the tour we returned to the Notre Dame cathedral area. Before entering we got a quick meal at a place called Nabab Kebab where there were way too many customers for the one guy that was working there. After the meal I took some outdoor panoramas of the Notre Dame Cathedral for my dad and also took pictures of the statues because I like naming them. The cathedral was considerably colder than the outside weather and Lise had to resort to warming her hands near the candles that people put used for prayer. This trip was much more successful though because we were able to see the stained glass windows. I also took some indoor panoramas for my dad. After the Cathedral we had
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Just kidding. It was a house that Mrs. Pommery paid for so the accountant that worked there could be with his family and still work for them wanted to go to the automobile museum, but we decided that we had spent enough money and wanted to get back home, so we left.
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