Barcelona to Champagne
After leaving Barcelona, my 7AM flight arrived in Paris at 9:20AM as I had made plans to spend the weekend in Champagne with a large group of friends for Geneva.
After leaving Barcelona, my 7AM flight arrived in Paris at 9:20AM as I had made plans to spend the weekend in Champagne with a large group of friends for Geneva.
While in Paris, I found a gym and stowed my bag in a locker to then ran 19 miles for marathon training before showing and boarding a train to Epernay. The run was very hot and on top of this, I then had to walk about a mile from the gym to the train station in order to make my connection in time! I was quite happy to get a chance to sit and rest.
The train to Épernay was very quick (1:20) and I arrived at 4pm and took a 15 min. taxi to Fontaine-sur-Ay where our group had rented a huge farm house. The house we rented could sleep about 25-30 people and we had about 17 so the place was great for our larger group as it accommodated everyone and also had several grills, foosball, and a ping pong table. All of our meals the remaining weekend were dinners grill outs with everyone lending a land on the preparation and cooking.
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| Grilling at the homestead. |
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| Foosball at the farm house. |
The following day, we had an organized Champagne tasting where a full-size charter bus picked up us and drove us through a small winery in the morning near a castle in Boursault, we then had a small lunch in Hautvillars, followed by a tasting in Épernay before heading to the farm house for dinner.
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| Full group at Boursault |
The weekend was an amazing time to catch with friends one last time before heading back to Geneva for my final 2 nights before leaving for the US.
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