Thursday 09/26/19

I slept quite well last night in spite of the occasional church bells. The AirBnB I’m in is in a very old building, but a completely new remodel, the best of both worlds, and very well located. I got up and headed for the covered market for coffee, and then to the visitor info center where I could take one of those hokey tourist tram things around town. That was good for about an hour. My landlord had given me a fairly extensive walking tour the night before so there really weren’t any surprises. After finishing that, I decided I would go to one of the famous Alsace wine towns, the nearest one being Eguisheim. After exploring complicated bus, hop on hop off bus options, I went to the station and rented an electric bike (17euro) for the afternoon. The map they gave me showed a nice bike route, but didn’t have any street names or landmarks, mostly just a squiggle on the map, almost useless. (Why can’t people understand that you need street name and landmarks to navigate?). Anyway, with google maps on the phone I got there with minimal fuss, parked the bike, walked around and found a place for lunch. First try, fancy place, still hadn’t offered me a menu after 5 minutes, walked out, no one noticed. Second place, Crepes, always a safe harbor and good. After lunch tasted a few of the local whites, tasty, but not really my kind of stuff. Rode the bike back to Colmar following a different route and turned it in. After a quick regroup I went to the Bartholdi museum. This is the man who designed and built the Statue of Liberty. Museum was not all that interesting, but models abound of some of his famous works. Apparently Gustav Eiffel helped with the framework of the Statue of Liberty.

Statue of Bartholdi, Statue of Liberty designer.Colmar.View from my sidewalk dinner table. Colmar.Sometimes, comfort food is what you want. Steak Frites, green peppercorn sauce and Cote du Rhône

Inside the covered market. No oysters to be had though.