Carolyn's and Tom's Trips to France from 2009 to 2015

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Alsace

The drive to Strasburg from Munich started out beautifully.  Here's Neuschwanstein -- Mad King Ludwig's castle.  The best view is this one; the closer you get, the more crazy tourists.

No pictures of the horrific traffic, or the B&B in Strasbourg where the owners 
didn't show up.  Here's the beautiful spot we ended up staying, the Hostellerie du Chateau, in Egelscheim.



Saturday - got up late.  Rainy.  Did some touring in the rain.  We came home
and had some wine in our room.  Here's the view from our window at cocktail time (pic taken the next morning when the sun was shining).


Then we had a terrific dinner.
    Sunshine today (Sunday).  A great 2 hour walk in the vineyards road -- up to a little village that is the highest point in the Alsace wine road (Husserin des Chateaux).









Then a trip to a country "spring market," where we ate far too much food.  




Then a drive to a couple of the terribly cute, and terribly crowded wine villages.  They were amazingly preserved 14th and 15th century buildings and streets, crowded with tourist shops and tourists.


Tomorrow great exictement -- a trip to the capital of the wine country, Colmar, to do tourist things and wash our clothes.






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