Hastings to Reims – I arrived at the Folkestone side of the Channel Tunnel and there was a huge queue with a sign saying 5 hours delay due to a train breakdown in the tunnel. Not nice as I still had a 3 hour ride to Reims after disembarking at the other end in Calais and the Continent is GMT +1 which means I lose another hour. Anyway the delay turned out to be 2:45 hrs and I arrived in Riems at 19:30 and no rain was a bonus, look on the bright side hahaha.
Reims (pronounced Rance as in France without the F, that is how it was explained to me) is know as the Coronation city because many French Kings were crowned in the Reims cathedral.
This area is also where Champagne is produced. I went on a 4 hour champage tour to a couple of small vineyards, very interesting. There are also 2 major champagne houses that are located in Reims itself Veuve Clicquot and Pommery.
Reddition Museum – this is also where the Germans signed the surrender documents after WWII.
I went on a self guided tour of the Pommery Cellars in Reims, a fascinating place.
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Thank you Chris for the blog. It lets us vicariously travel with you and see and hear about places that we probably will never visit. Stay safe in your travels. Hope to see you in Bangalore sometime in the future.
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Thanks for you good wishes Mathew.
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Love the new format of embedded videos! Bravo!
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The new format was brought about because WordPress gave me an extra 10GB as a loyalty bonus and then it suddenly disappeared and they are trying to get me on a another plan which will cost 3 times more. So I had to find another way of uploading photos. I found Canva and am using it to create the photo videos to upload to Youtube which is still free. Canva is a lot more work.
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Well, this works too, for now! I’ve been doing something similar. Still love maintaining my blog with full pics, but then take a subset of them to create “reels” set to music!
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Was wondering why you even need to use Canva (and I’m familiar with it) when you can directly upload your photos to YouTube, no? I thought it allows you to upload both videos and still pics… might save you a step.
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No, only videos allowed.
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