Corbeny to Hermonville – 21 km

We crested a hill and all at once, as if stepping onto a new world, the landscape changed from golden fields of grain to neat green rows of vines stretching to the horizon   We are in Champagne region.  Hermonville, like many wine region towns, is orderly and clean with a well-preserved Romanesque 12^th century church where we listened to the town choir practicing a truly angelic Kyrie Eleison.   The Piccolo Pizzeria offered a reasonably good Bolognese. We enjoyed our hosts, a transplanted Dutch couple who left Den Hague 23 years ago to open a B&B in the Marne.  They also teach leadership skills in Rwanda.   On to Reims.