A few trip statistics: Cities we visited: Bologna, Italy Florence, Italy Parma, Italy Milan, Italy Basel, Switzerland Colmar, France Ribeauville, France Strasborg, France Frankfurt, Germany A few words put together much more picturesque than I can do… “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know […]
Winding down on our last full day in Europe. Today we head up to Frankfurt Germany to catch our flight home tomorrow. 15 minute walk in the rain from the bahnhoff in Frankfurt and we were in front of our last hotel of the trip. Checked in early, freshened up, and grabbed lunch in the […]
Late start today. It’s getting harder to maintain the pace. If I were 4 years younger… So, the plan is breakfast, over to the cathedral for a forgotten promise, a boat ride around the city, a couple of drinks and a bite, some shopping, a break, then dinner. Oh! This life is terrible. We hit […]
Ok we planned for rain a couple of days ago. We stacked the indoor events for today, so we hit the cathedral and the museum. Here’s the big boy. We bought a small replica of the window above. Now we have 3, all the same size: one from Notre Dame in Paris, one from Sagrada […]
We caught the one and only train to Strasbourg from Colmar for the day. All other trains were canceled due to the strike. Arrival: A short walk to our apartment brought us around the back of a mid-sized church, where we ascended 3 flights of stairs to this lovely view Refreshed, it was breakfast time. […]
Museum Unterlinden: https://www.musee-unterlinden.com/en/home/ Ooooh a wine press in the basement of the museum Outside, the rain starts, so we took shelter in a couple of market stalls Check out this stank cheese shop. Open the door and Bam! Face full of feet! So, after a bit of dorking around town, we grabbed a slab of […]
This is the day we set aside to visit a little town north of Colmar, called Ribeauville. It’s another Christmas market, but this time it’s medieval. You guessed it: crusaders, monks, swords, and demons… A witch’s brew of great food and fun! A quick trip on a bus to Ribeauville dropped us off in front […]
Ok we are at the epicentre of the Christmas asteroid impact. Clearly we have a lot of people chasing Rudolph. Imma jump ahead about 6 hours to show a good contrasts. Here’s a view from our balcony. This is 9a, and the crowds build from there… There are hundreds of unique bread and chocolate vendors […]
The Basel museum of history. Not much happened in Basel… We didn’t have time. We took the wrong train, and ended up across the city from where we wanted to be… We spent an hour looking for the post office… And of course, there was the French transportation strike.