It was spitting with rain as we sat down to breakfast. Although the hotel was the cheapest on the trip @ €40 a night, it was very good. It is currently under a massive plan of updating. Our room was brand new, the bed, everything. Some of the other rooms where we could see in had been decorated and were "under construction" still. We were the only guests that night. We were away a little after 9.20 and this time we headed straight for Reims on the N roads before a detour around looking for the city centre. On the way we drove along the D951. Every kilometre or so there are markers showing it to be the " Voie de la Liberte ", a huge monument stretching across France to commemorate the Liberation. I pulled up to take a pic of one in Mont Chenot village. This village on the road to Reims from Epernay would have been liberated on or about 30th August 1944. We didn't intend to stop, just have a fly-by in case we want to come back. We passe...
