Day 25 – Fri 04 Jul 14, Metz to Reims (France)
Forecast: 16-28 deg C, fine and sunny; Listed distance: 70km; Actual distance: 10km; Cumulative distance: 987km; Metz: 15 deg C, sunny; Reims: 16 deg C, overcast As we did not want to miss the train, we were up at 5:15am. When checking out from the hotel, they wanted to charge us Euro 53 for 2 breakfasts and city tax. After much questioning it came down to Euro 33, which was Euro 3.80 short, but Wendy wasn't going to argue any further. They will probably debit the card when they find out! (P.S. they didn’t) We arrived at the train station nice and early at 6:15am. However, if we had known that our train wouldn't be allocated a platform number until about 15 mins prior to departure we wouldn't have rushed so much. Oh well, better to wait a while than to be too rushed and really have to panic. The train left right on time at 7:08am and we saw some pretty and not so pretty scenery along the way, with lots of heavy industrial sites, both operational and run down. ...