Beau Sejour Colmar

... I asked why she was not able to serve the salad and pommes sauted without the accompanying meat or fish! She was adamant that this was all that she was prepared to offer. My friend therefore chose not to eat at all. Madam then informed us that all four had to eat or none of us could, insinuating that we would have to leave. At this point I would like to offer my most heartfelt congratulations that obviously Mdm and Msr Thomann are in the happy position of being able to ...

... before going to Morroco. We went out to get me some cigarettes and noticed that the City game was on in a bar so we watched that and I drank so Rose which was cheap Ian was on beer and it was nearly 6 euro a pint the most expensive yet.

Ian wanted to go back to the room but I was enjoying the rose so we went just to another pub around the corner with some locals in who bought us shots and ended up getting drunk again, I was ...

... here in France as all the letters and nu,bers are all the wrong way around so if it looks silly I am sorry and I will have to catch up with the rest of the blog another time as it will take me years.

Anyway we found our hotel and we upograded our room to have a kitchen so that could cook and rest and stay in a little before we go off to Morroco. So thats what we did we went to the supermarket ...

... where we were to sample another Alsacien tradition – baeckaoffa – a stew of pork, lamp and beef simmered in sylvaner wine, layered with vegetables. A hearty country dish faced our jaded pallets. After a few glasses of sylvaner we were braced for anything, although we were not ready for what happened next. The waiting staff started to bring in large casseroles and set them on a nearby table. The casseroles kept ...

Otra vez en Francia. En la rivera del alto Rhin Colmar es un ejemplo de ciudad medieval bien conservada, con casas de entramado estilo alsaciano y canales llenos de vida. Conserva perfectamente el ambiente urbano de las ciudades centroeuropeas que nacieron alrededor de las rutas comerciales.

Arrivée à Mulhouse dans l'après midi après 7h00 de train assez éprouvant, ça fait plaisir de retrouver des amis pas vus depuis longtemps. Visite de la vieille ville de Mulhouse le Samedi, la Ville est Assez industrielle, ce n'est aps encore l'Alsace de Carte ...

This was what I really came to Europe for. Freiburg was just the beginning of an awesome adventure for me. The mountains and the forest and the cake. We caught a cable car up to the top of the mountain and wandered in the snow. Got some great photos. We made Freiburg our base and toured a fair bit around the region. Spent a night here and there and came back to Freiburg for the festival. Took about two hundred photos in two hours one day; they had a ...

Well mother nature smiled upon us once again. 30 degrees and sunny all day. It was a good thing as this weekend is the 47th annual winegrowers festival in the town of Eguisheim. It is about 6km west of Colmar and home to over 40 wineries. Not bad for a town of about 2000 people. You pay 6 euros (about 9 bucks Canadian) and you get a glass to wander the lovely streets and stop at your choice of 44 winery stands to sample their ...

With the arrival of young McDonough in August, Meghan and I are trying to squeeze in as much of Europe as we can while its still the 2 of us. We took a long weekend and headed to the Alsace region, just inside the German border and just north of Switzerland. Our home base for the trip was Colmar, a city of 70,000 about an hour south of Strasbourg and 40 miles north of Basle, Switzerland. Those of you that remember your European history will know that Alsace ...

... me, my host brother, his sister, and dad against his mother, we opted to go to the air show. There we saw one of the fastest planes in the world and many different stunt planes. I admire the spontaneity and the traveling in the German culture. Justin Hershey