by Per Svangren
My wife and I went to France. We went by car from Stockholm, via Denmark, and Germany to big and lovely France. Our goal was to reach the Riviera and La Londe, close to Toulon, where we rented a house for a week. Also there, we would be meeting our children and their boy/girlfriends.
So there will be some blogs about the trip, starting today with Champagne.
The district of Champagne is quite small but contains many vineyards producing the lovely, sparkling white vine that has become so famous that the producers have problems nowadays to produce enough for all buyers.
We stoped at many vineyards in and around Epernay and tasted and bought a lot of bottles. One of our favourites was Eric Isselée, where we also stayed over night in a lovely little room in the middle of the wine fields. The sun was shining and it was quite warm when we arrived. So after placing all of things in the room, we took a bottle of cold champagne an sat down in the garden. Surrounded by grape vines we enjoyed the lovely taste of a bottle from Eric Isselée.
