Tourist activities

We have checked out Compiegne and Soissons. They are quiet country towns and it is quite interesting to watch the locals interacting. We have also travelled over to Reims and Epernay just for the day to visit the champagne caves of Moet and Chandon. Just to make sure that we have checked out all the shops during the current summer sales, we took the train into Paris and les grands magasins for the day. Sarah had seen the key sites of Paris before so was more interested in where the rich and famous do their shopping and taking in the cafe scene. Randall spent a couple of hours with a coffee or two.

As usual, Paris at this time of the year is full of tourists struggling with their maps and emerging from the metro trying to agree which way to go.