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Avenue Champagne Epernay
Frame house
Valley of Marne
Chanel of Aisne
Village Hautvillers
Champagne cellar at Epernay
Champagne
The french kings where crowned at Reims, Renoir loved the soft hilly landscape with its vineyards and its famous products. Cycle through dreamy vineyards, little villages, stop at abbeys and castles. And of course taste the wine and Champagne.
Travel details
Tour profile:
Level 2; hilly with some ascents and descends
Day 1: Reims
Individual arrival. Welcome meeting and bike handover late afternoon at the hotel.
Day 2: Reims - Tours sur Marne (approx. 54 km/34miles)
Visit Cathedral Notre Dame at Reims, - Unesco World Heritage since 1991. Enjoy the view over the mills of Verzeney and one strange lighthouse -which presumably should illuminate the vineyards. You will cycle on through dreamy villages like Gran-Cru- in the community Bouzy and Chigny les Roses.
Day 3: Tours sur Marne - Epernay (approx. 35 km/22miles)
The champagne was invented by the monk Don Perignon in the benedictine abey of Hautvillers. Today you will cycle through the national park Montagnes des Reims and you will cycle through Verzy, where you should visit the "Faux-de-Verzy" - an unusual forest of gnarled, stunted and twisted beech trees hundred of years old. You will find famous Champagne brands at the magnificent wine cellars of Epernay.
Day 4: Epernay - Vertus (approx. 25km/15miles)
Côte Blancs is the cradle of Chardonnay: the villages rest on the hills like amphitheatres. At the distance the extensions of the Marnevalley. In the middle of the valleys little villages where the time stops.
Day 5: Vertus - Châtillon sur Marne (approx. 35km/22miles)
Again you cyle through vine yards and wood, pass the renaissance castle Boursault built by the widow Cliqout. Looming on the horizon you see the church of Châtillon-sur-Marne.
Day 6: Châtillon sur Marne - Reims (approx. 35km/22miles)
Through the vine yards of Pinot Noir you cycle back to Reims. Visit one of the four UNESCO world cultural heritages in the city: the cathedral, the abbey, Palais du Tau or Basilika Saint-Remi.
Day7: Reims
Individual departure or extension.
Tour details/prices
Days of arrival: daily
Dates: April 01. - October 31. 2012
Arrival | Parking | Departure
Airport:
Paris Roissy - Charles de Gaulle: take TGV to Champagne-Ardennes; approx. 30 minutes, from there take train or taxi (approx. € 10) to Reims .Paris Orly: train to Gare de l'Est, here take TGV to Champagne-Ardennes;, from here train or taxi (approx. € 10) to Reims
Station: Reims (via Paris: hourly TGV to Reims, approx. 45 minutes/€ 30) or via Straßburg: some TGV/day approx. 2 hours/€ 50-60)
Arrival by car: z.B. Saarbrücken-Reims 3-4 hours
Parking: on request
Accomodation:
national 2* hotels and cosy inns
Services included
+ 6 nights, double room, private facilities, breakfast
+ luggage transport
+ 1 handle bag bar with maps and information material/room
With halfboard supplement: dinner at the accomodation or at a restaurant
generell discount:
Additional/extra bed in double with 2 full paying adults: 0-1,99 yrs.: -100%, 2-3,99 yrs.: -50%, 4-10,99 yrs.: -25%
price per person in € | |
tourprice | |
double room | 685 |
single room supplement | 560 |
half board supplement | 260 |
bicycle incl. panniers | bike rental |
21 gear bike | 90 |
additional night | Reims |
double room | 66 |
single room supplement | on request |
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