Day 17: Reims/Epernay

Today our home-stay family started off the day by treating us to a tour of Reims and of the cathedral of Reims. It was in this cathedral that every French king was crowned from Clovis to Charles X. The cathedral was torn apart by bombs during WWI and WWII, and had to be largely reconstructed.


Next, a few of us were able to attend a private tour of the 2nd largest champagne production cellar in the world. We walked down 9 stories of steps to the miles of vaulted cellars that house 40 million bottles of champagne.



Upon returning to Sept-Saulx, we had a very nice BBQ to close out our night.