A long weekend to the Champagne area in France, starting in Lille, then to Reims and back to NL via Charleville Mezieres
The museum: La Piscine. In Roubaix, outside Lille. Museum for Art and Industry, it used to be a textile factory, then a swimming pool and today a very impressive museum where you walk along the pool amongst pieces of art and crossing from one room to the other through the changing rooms. A very surprising visit.
The fork: La cave aux fioles, Lille. An unexpected place. Traditional, delicious French kitchen in a very unique atmosphere, one of those long dinners in which you truly enjoy every minute of it.
The visit: Caves Vranken Pommery. For tastings and buying you should go to one of the small, local producers along the Rue du Champagne, like Paul Clouet, the Cuvee Prestige is really good. But go to the organized visit at Pommery, big and commercial but it is the most beautiful cave to visit, very impressive, and the 1 hour tour is actually very interesting to learn about the whole process of Champagne making.
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