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Colmar Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Colmar, France
France and Switzerland
This is a top pick! ... It is beautiful countryside with mustard fields (in full bloom) lining the highway. We decided to spend the night in Colmar, France. Colmar is in the Alsace region of France - which throughout history has sometimes been Germany - so the food ...
Colmar Part un
This is a top pick! Call off the debate! Heaven does exist! It is hidden in the north east corner of France and is called Colmar! Colmar is the heart of the Alsace wine region in the middle of the "Route des vins". Like most old french towns, the centre of the city ...
Colmar part deux
This is a top pick! ... we reached Kayserberg, we explored the town that feels and sounds like it should actually be part of Germany rather than France. It was unfortunately heavily damaged during the struggle for liberation in December of 1944, but they have done a remarkable ...
Colmar again...
This is a top pick! So to start our travels again we decided to head back to one of our favourite places from last year's trip. Colmar, France is only a few hours north of Gryon, in the Alsace region of France, and home to the "Wine Route". After finding our way back to ...
The little joys of life
... the room...seventh heaven..I'd been clean but wrinkly...now I felt much more au fait with the world. Colmar, which you may have noticed on the Tour de France coverage is a town full of colourful half timbered houses as well as the usual sprinkling of ...
Colmar
... "maison des têtes" or “house of heads” because of all of the heads on the façade. The streets of Colmar are really pretty with half-timbered houses everywhere and ivy geraniums and petunias spilling out of window boxes everywhere. In fact, ...
I went to France!
... staying at a hotel across the street). But then we got outside and things got better. Then we drove to Colmar, France. Wow, it was really beautiful. Old french houses, a winding river, the smell of fresh bakeries, outdoor cafes, and ...
Road Trip & Favorite Cities
... very centrally located. Friday we got up early and headed straight to the castle of Haut-Koenigsbourg. It's a castle that lays between Colmar and Strasbourg. I had been there once before but about 10 years ago. A lot of work has been done on it ...
Strike day in France and 85% of public approve
... of slow moving wide-ish rivers, very expansive and pleasant but you can't help feeling nobody is here. After last night, I'd booked ahead for Colmar. As this is my last chance to use my £69 wifi SFR stick in France, I decided to see how long any ...
Clickety-clack, clickety-clack
We took the train from Paris to Colmar, in the Alsace region of France. The landscape was very green with leafy trees and lots of wild flowers, including red poppies. Small houses along the canals, farms, fields with round hay bales, cows, rolling ...
3 Countries in a day
... water and tinkling bells from the livestock. So packed and issued with tickets all the way through to Colmar, Alsace region of France by a most efficient young man at the station we departed with eyes fixed out the train window soaking in the ...
Colmar, France
Here are the pictures of Colmar, France, which I discussed in the previous entry. This is where we ate ...
Dilema
We have a dilema. We planned to go to the thermal baths in Budapest, but we opted out and did more touristy stuff. Now it looks like we will be heading to Baden Baden where some of Jill's relatives originated. Wouldn't you know they have 2 thermal baths. ...
Colmar a delightful blend of German and French
Colmar is a city about the size of Rotorua, 70,000 and yet it feels more like a Whakatane sized town. I like the way it flows seamlessly from the old town city centre with houses dating back to the 1300's to the residential section with houses ...
Friendly France
... kind of an oxymoron is that, eh? But it is true, I tell you. When Josh and I went to Colmar, a small city in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, we were pleasantly surprised by the helpfulness and hospitality of the French. It could be, however, that it ...
Colmar France Wine Country
Here we are in wine country, Colmar, France. We got here early this afternoon. It is a pretty cool place. We thought at first that the rain was following us from Lauterbrunnen, but so far so great. It is quite a bit warmer and hot tomorrow and the next ...
Colmar, France
Today was another fun day. We went on a wine tasting tour of France. Colmar is a beautiful little town. There is a stream running through it and lots of flowers everywhere. It is the first time on this trip that I felt totally screwed for not knowing ...
They couldn't possibly mean rain ALL day?
... in a gite. That's just a fancy European word for a self catering apartment. We are in the old part of Colmar and it feels like we are staying in Disneyland. The buildings are brightly colored half timbered. Cuteness overload! ...
Timber Framed Houses
It was only a short stop, since we spend the extra day in Switzerland. Downtown is very picturesque. ...
Is It Germany, or Is It France?
... conversation before having to ask if they speak English, which, much to my surprise, happened only once during our first stint in France. Colmar was very different than any of the cities we saw in the south because it really did look German. The ...
Alsace villages
Many of the city names are in German, as this area was lost to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War and not returned until after ...
Buses, Hiking, Mountains, Wine
... quickly stopped and drove us up to our campsite...5 minutes beyond his acutal desitination...he worked for ricoh in the factory in colmar from what i could understand we slept the night and tsugumi did some laundry today we took a 1:00 local train to ...
From Lederhosen to Wine
... the trip together I wanted basically to get from Bavaria to Interlaken in Switzerland. But I also wanted to see Colmar in the Alsace (France) so in the planning I decided to take on a reasonably lengthy drive from Unterammergau to Colmar. I booked a ...
Reunion. Yves & Popaye in Muhlbach sur Munst
After some telephone problems contact Popaye Heinrich; Yves picks me up at train station in Colmar, Alcace: with Kerry from Queenslqnd, Australia: Popye and Yves had stayed with me in Yonkers August 2005 and 2005; Had met in Petra Jordan, 2002; Very ...
Sensory Overload
... . An ordinary road cuts through them connecting one historical town after another to each other. Marvellous. We finished the day in Colmar, a much larger version of medieval. The town centre is old town but is surrounded by modern-ville. But inside the ...
Colmar - courtesy of the Lyalls
A brief 2 day stop in a small town on the French Swiss border in the Alsace region. Booked into a hotel here for a couple of nights and phoned the ferry company to move our passage home for another day. Felt it was a good idea to chill out again and to ...
From Germany to Alsace, France
From Southwestern Germany to Eastern France by just crossing the Rhine on the longest pedestrian bridge in Europe. The trip to Basel goes through Alsace, France on the last leg. Alsace was the site of 2 World Wars and somehow managed to not get ...
To Switzerland
... . After lunch we hop back on the bus for the 2 hour transfer to Lucerne. While walking through a cathedral in Colmar, I start to wonder about what is behind the creation of such palaces of worship. Obviously there must have been something ...