Our last full day of holiday abroad. Today’s mission is to find wineries, purchase wine and find a campsite to pitch tent before it gets dark! We’re only about 300miles from Calais now so today should be pretty laid back leaving only a morning’s drive to the ferry tomorrow.
Throughout our journey our conversations have varied somewhat. However, one consistent theme contained within everything that proceeds from Sam’s mouth involves ‘clichés’… or ‘catchphrases’ usually from films. I’ll give some examples: “Goodness knows”, “Cool beans” etc. Everyone, I’m sure, who’s ever met Sam knows about these idiosyncrasies. And to say they bugged Andrew would be too much, however, with 18 days of travelling ahead of us it didn’t take long for Andrew to mention the issue. Cunningly the solution involved TLAs (three letter abbreviations/acronyms). Cool beans soon became ‘CBs’, meaning ‘that’s pretty cool’, but then it became necessary to add to the abbreviations. We soon had ‘CBBs’ which stands for ‘cool baked beans’ which implies the subject is slightly better than CBs. Being the masters of catchphrases we then invented an abbreviation for something seriously impressive, so we invented ‘CBBITS’ (CBBs in tomato sauce!).
Sad you might be thinking… but see if you can work out the following paragraphs, this is how we iz speaking these days:
Awoke. Night’s sleep NtS, probably because we’d HaF last night. Breakfast disappointing, in fact it was URish. Had t’internet access so we PtB. Packed dusty and HtR. CBs, we were off.
Stopped at service station to buy a map and some oil for Dusty. Plotted route to Reims with vineyards on route – 133 of them! We’ll soon be in Champagne-Ardenne.
Arrived at Bollinger, they took one look at us, and said YISE, URish, so we JO and headed for Moet. CBBITS, they let us is! We looked RaT compared to all the swanky looking suits! Tour was NtS, got a free glass of champers and then HtR once again.
Headed towards Reims trying to find Moet vineyards, CBB’s we stumbled across them, amazed and giggling with excitement we took photos and stole some grapes then HtR heading for campsite. Map was URish, campsite nowhere to be found, W we thought and JO to the next one. URish it was closed, GK’s what the cartographers were drinking when they tacked up the map!!
Camping, W, no camping symbol on map in next town but when we got there there were signs for camping, URish it also was closed…. JO to next town where we decided we would get a hotel. Once again we saw signs for camping and decided to give it once last go! CBBITS it was open NtS. Tent up in 5 mins flat, into town for dinner. Amazing find, Laon, 2 huge gothic cathedrals, took photos and wandered through medieval walled city!! Had amazing pizza and a beautiful Cotes du Rhone NtS. Off to bed around 10.30……
CB’s we slept well despite not having HaF!!
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