So my roommate and I took a day trip last week to Champagne, where you guessed it, they make champagne. We went on a distillery tour, which ended up being more like a ride at Ginty Carnival. In a motorized car in the pitch dark, we went through the cellars where there were random statues of men in different poses: cutting the grapes, stacking bottles, etc. They could have definitely invested more in making it a bit more engaging. The last part of the ride was this homage to the movie Casablanca (??) with a plastic Humphrey Bogart mannequin drinking the champagne (??). Needless to say, the tour was only worth the free tasting at the end.
To kill some time before our train home, we wandered into the Gallo-Roman crypts, a historical site that we thought sounded interesting. As French history enthusiasts, we were expecting a museum-type ambience that explained the importance of such a site. Well instead, it was a halloween freakshow. There were hanging rubber masks, and as you see in the pictures below, inexplicable props with no overall theme or a sign that explained why they were even there. Good good times.
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