Reims is only a short 45min trip away from Paris and we got to experience one of the super fast trains. It is quite scary when these trains zoom past you at top speed when your waiting on a platform but on board it makes for a nice smooth ride. it does however mean that the outside world blurs past you and so not really ideal for checking out the scenery or trying to take pictures. When you are in Paris it seems like the city goes on forever but in fact within fifteen minutes we were in the country side passing fields of animals and crops. As we got closer to Reims and the champagne county this turned into blurred rows and rows of grapes. I have actually never seen that many vineyards before. They seemed to continue for miles interspersed by little villages looking after the land. Rheims is in the heart of the champagne country and has several major cellars where we would be spending our time carrying out a few tastings.