Champagne region & Lauterbrunnen - your recommendations

[Steve Evil]

It's our 4th wedding anniversary in August and we've got a nice little tradition going on where I take my wife away and surprise her with a night or two in a hotel, we do a tasting menu and generally have a nice time relaxing, eating good food and drinking lots of wine. This year we've both got a few days off and our anniversary coincides nicely with the August bank holiday weekend, so I'd like to go somewhere out of the UK.

Having read through one of the better Readers Cars threads recently where the guy had driven a VW camper down to Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland and seen how beautiful it was, I'd like to spend a few days there. The day we leave will be our wedding anniversary and seeing as the Champagne region is about halfway to Lauterbrunnen, I think it would be nice to stop there and stay at a good hotel, drink some of the local specialty and eat some good food.

This is where you chaps and chapesses come in, I'm sure plenty of you will have stayed in the Champagne region and have places you'd recommend, doesn't have to be Michelin rated, just a bit special to mark the occasion.

Likewise if anyone has any places we must go in Lauterbrunnen, plan on going to the ice palace, checking out the waterfalls and generally wandering around gawping at the scenery.

[Steve Evil]

Thanks for the tips guys! Point taken about Lauterbrunnen, will look into staying in Wengen instead. Now to have a nose at these places to stop off on the way.