Day 16: Reims/Sept-Saulx

Today the students spent their whole day with their home-stay families in the town of Reims, as well as the surrounding villages and towns. Reims is located in the heart of the champagne region of France, and is famous for being the place where the allied forces first signed the truce with Germany after WWII. It was later decided that since Dwight Eisenhower was not an important-enough man at the time, the truce should be signed again the following day in Berlin.

One of my home-stay hosts, Gilles Salade, took me on a brief tour of a few champagne vinyards during the day.