Reims

Sunday then we visited a neat little tourist place called Pre en Bulles where they had humanoid-like robots explain the champagne making process. It was quite bizarre, but also interesting and as an engineer anything with a talking robot is cool.

Then on the way back to Paris we stopped in Reims to visit the Reims Cathedral which is where all the French kings had their coronation ceremonies. It was really beautiful inside, and well worth the stop.

Once back in Paris, we discovered that our local crepe stand has started selling mulled wine! And they put up Christmas lights on the streets (though they still aren't on yet for some reason). But Christmas is coming!

Also I learned after the fact that the "vin chaud" (literally "hot wine") is pronounced nothing at all like you would say it in English (in French it's something like "va show"), so it was little wonder the crepe guy had no idea what I was talking about. This French language thing... ::le sigh::

Finally I purchased tickets for my first concert in Paris, to see Gogol Bordello and Man Man. Tickets were about the same price as the states (converting for Euro) and so I'm curious to see what the Paris music scene is like.