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Wedding trip part 3: arrival in England
Tuesday, 30th June 2009 • Travel • 1 comment
After a very long pause, I continue with my series of posts telling the story of our trip to Scotland and back to get married.
Wedding trip part 2: Reims to the Channel Tunnel
Thursday, 31st July 2008 • Travel • No comments
After a good night’s sleep in Reims, we headed onward towards our appointment with the cross-Channel tunnel at a rate of knots, passing through the first toll booth of the day as we headed on through northern France towards Calais. We made pretty good time as the roads were exceptionally clear – by our experience, they usually are in northern France – and stopped off near Laon for the first fuel stop of the journey. This part of France is quite peculiar: flat and with few distinguishing points of interest, peppered with towns which seem to show a certain level of decline. Pulling off the Autoroute des Anglais (“Motorway of the English”, according to Google Maps) to find fuel, we ended up finding a filling station and a supremely dull Buffalo Grill restaurant to photograph as evidence of the general feeling of bleakness of this part of France.
Once back on the road again, we were entertained in part by trying to spot hunters in the massive fields, mere speck
Wedding trip, day one – Switzerland to Reims
Thursday, 24th July 2008 • Travel • No comments
I love travelling back and forth between Britain and Switzerland. Although it’s a long way, the journey is made pretty easy by the fact that most of the long haul is through France, where undulating countryside and unfamiliar landscape provides a level of interest and flat, straight, empty motorways make a journey with cruise control hardly stressful at all. Having tried a couple of routes now, I’ve found that the best and quickest (though perhaps not the least expensive, due to the toll booths) is to leave Switzerland at Mulhouse, near Basel, to head north through Germany to Strasbourg. From there, turn off and follow the signs for Metz and Paris, heading along the A4 through the Alsace region through north eastern France. Stay on this road until you reach the Champagne region, where you turn onto the A26 near Châlons-en-Champagne and head for the city of Reims.
We’d chosen Reims as a first night stopping place, as it’s about halfway through the journey to southern England and the city offers a r