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Try champagne in Châlons en Champagne

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This town in the Champagne area is a really cute town to visit and they have a nice champagne winery to visit. Enjoy the photos with Bill Smale Adventures.

Our guy is showing us the different bottle sizes. He confirmed that the largest bottle size is not the one used to celebrate at the races.
Down in the caves you can see how these bottles are stored in order to get the yeast to settle so they can extract it. Sometimes the extraction is done by hand.
The shows a bottle with yeast that still needs to settle.
Yeast venting
As with all wine caves this one is nice and cool. It was pretty warm outside.
These are the three types of grapes used for their champagne at Châlons en Champagne. Only the Chardonnay grape is used for the Blanc de Blanc.
This shows their vineyards throughout the champagne area.
The front entrance
A parking mushroom
Old houses on the river
Beautiful old church
A Chinese restaurant named Angkor . I wonder if they’re playing with the Cambodian Temple complex name.
Typical French perfume shop
Beautiful old buildings in Châlons en Champagne
I think this lights up in the evening
Making sure this building doesn’t fall while they are putting up a new building beside it.
Pipe organ in Eglise Collégiale Notre-Dame-en-Vaux
Beautiful stained glass window
The original remains from the church
One of the original stone panels
A memorial for war dead
the map of the canal and locks
The different locks in the canals in France allow boats to travel all over the country
a boat travels up to the lock
There is a control light indicating whether they should enter or wait
The boat passes the first lock and up to the administration window
The boat owner ties the boat to the stanchions to make sure it’s not moving too much
When the lock is filled she can then untie the boat and proceed through the next lock
This is the front lock gate
Why not go fishing?
a beautiful old building
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