{"id":125615,"date":"2025-06-30T20:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rendahls.se\/?p=125615"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:23:57","slug":"a-trip-through-champagne-brought-bubbles-in-the-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rendahls.se\/en\/blog\/2025\/06\/30\/en-tripp-genom-champagne-gav-bubblor-i-bagaget\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip through Champagne brought bubbles in the boot"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a fantastic week in Alsace, which you can read about here<\/a>we travelled on towards Champagne. It had now been incredibly hot for several days and we felt that if we didn't get some coolness soon, we would freeze. Living in a campervan when it's over 40 degrees is really no fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We talked before the trip about maybe staying in a hotel for a night now and then. A big shower, a wide bed and AC is not so bad. One does not have to exclude the other, you can have both motorhome cosiness and hotel comfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hotel tank turned out to be a real stroke of luck. In A\u00ff we found the camping house Sacret<\/a> which has a B&B with large, lovely rooms and most importantly, AC. Here we had a nice champagne tasting together with a couple from Denmark and a couple of guys from Hong Kong. Together we had a great evening with lots of champagne and chat well into the small hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We had looked around at hotels in both \u00c9pernay and Reims, but settled on the smaller town of A\u00ff, which we had not heard of before. There are many champagne houses here and around the town are several Grand Cru vineyards. For example, you can visit Bollinger or Deutz in A\u00ff. We arrived in A\u00ff before the tourist season started for the summer so it was quiet and almost a bit sleepy. However, it doesn't feel like there are ever as many tourists here as in the bigger cities. The selection of restaurants and bars is quite small, but there are still some good places. For example, we found the restaurant LE19CENT60, which on the outside looks like a rather boring pizzeria but turned out to be a really charming neighbourhood restaurant with good food. If you get tired of A\u00ff, you can always take a taxi to \u00c8pernay, which is only half a mile away. Many hotels, such as Sacret, also have electric bikes for hire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the edge of the city centre is Pressoria<\/a>, a museum entirely dedicated to Champagne. It's an educational and fun museum where you'll learn all about the grape's journey to Champagne. In this interactive museum you can experience all the seasons of the year, smell the grapes and, of course, end the tour with a champagne tasting on the roof terrace overlooking the vineyards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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