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Gewurtztraminer and other sinful Delicacies
We love the Alsace region because of: - Gewurztraminer and Flammkuchen, Foie Gras and the stinky Munster cheese - the many, many stork nests - strolling through one flowery little township after the other - hiking in the vineyards - shopping in Colmar ..and not because we gained all that weight back that we had lost in India..oh well.
Land of milk and honey?
... i am partaking the scottish cure at the moment. a nice single malt from Aberlour. I feel it doing me good with every dram. There is lots of wind, and its not from the jackaroo stew. the wind blew to 30 knots and the rain came in feirce bullets all afternoon and evening. it died down an hour ago so I hold some hope for lighter winds in the morning. The fella in the bar showed me the forcast on his phone. lets just say it was unpleasant. there is a place to stop in about 20km which ...
A day trip to colmar
... tasting and dinner with marlin's local work partner.outside of colmar there are a bunch of casteles in the mountains overlooking the small farming communities. there is one that we were able to drive to and walk around. alythough we are told this isn'tthe best example since it was only built in the 1700s and not ...
Busy busy busy
... area and window shopped. We have reevaluated shopping because we have to carry it home!!! We had lunch at this little cafe that was warm and cozy and shared a bottle of Riesling from this area. It was all amazing and we decided we like currents and persimmons( little orange fruity things). Needless to at we are fearless...ha! Yeah right. The duck liver was good!!! So staying with the theme that 2 is better than one. We have stopped and an ...
End of the line!
... times remains at the centre of the community. This area remained a Catholic stronghold when many other areas in the upper Rhine changed to protestant The town was, again, quite quirky with little 'canals' running through the streets I don't really know what to call them but they are between 10 and 20 cm wide and about 20cm deep. they flow most of the year (and we had just missed the plastic duck race held the weekend before with about 700 ...