Sunday, September 29, 2013
Beers of our European adventure, Day 15,
This is the final post for this blog. We are at the airport and will be headed home There are many tours. Harry & I wanted to share our beer tour with you.
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Alsace Wine Region Day 14
Today we traveled into the foothills of the desVoges Mountains and visited 6 medieval villages along the wine route. Towns we visited were Kintzheim, Kayersberg, Riquewihr, Ribeauville, Truckheim, and Eguisheim. If you ever come over here, we recommend this location as a destination.
Harry continued to drive us around Europe. His driving skills are equal to the Europeans. Having said that, we did have a slight, shall I say faux paux incident. We pulled up to a red light and while we were discussing if we were supposed to stop or go, someone behind us blew their horn. We assumed we were supposed to go, so we went. Harry ran the red light. All the other cars were still stopped. Thankfully, we did not have another encounter with the Polizi. We just hope there was not a camera at that intersection.
While walking through Kayersberg, I saw a man with an LSU shirt sitting with a group of people. I stopped and asked if they were from Louisiana. Everyone started talking in French. I don't know if they even knew where the U.S. was.
It was a great final day of sightseeing on this trip. Tomorrow we head for Frankfurt and home.
Harry continued to drive us around Europe. His driving skills are equal to the Europeans. Having said that, we did have a slight, shall I say faux paux incident. We pulled up to a red light and while we were discussing if we were supposed to stop or go, someone behind us blew their horn. We assumed we were supposed to go, so we went. Harry ran the red light. All the other cars were still stopped. Thankfully, we did not have another encounter with the Polizi. We just hope there was not a camera at that intersection.
While walking through Kayersberg, I saw a man with an LSU shirt sitting with a group of people. I stopped and asked if they were from Louisiana. Everyone started talking in French. I don't know if they even knew where the U.S. was.
It was a great final day of sightseeing on this trip. Tomorrow we head for Frankfurt and home.
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| A French Sherman Tank, made in Detroit (Guess who gave it to the French?) |
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| I don't know who this lady is. She was nice enough to sell me a memory stick for Linda's camera after I left hers in the computer. |
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| Jerry & Harry on a bridge built in 1500's |
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| Linda and Amanda, somewhere in old France |
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| Street scene, Riquewihr |
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| This entrance way was built in the 12th century |
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| There were vineyards everywhere |
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| Babbling brook |
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| More vineyards |
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| Stork nest |
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| Homemade Crème Brulee |
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| Entrance to old town |
Friday, September 27, 2013
European Odyssey Day13
Our European Odyssey continues, but it is fast heading for its conclusion. Two more days and we are headed home... a great adventure.
Today finds us in Colmar, France, another medieval town, largely preserved, the majority of its buildings still intact after these hundreds of years. It is also the home of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the designer of the Statue of Liberty. It took about 3 hours to get over here from Lindau. We traveled through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France to get here. I met a nice couple from the U.S. He was from West Virginia, she was from Pittsburgh. The are ex-pats, living in Basel, Switzerland. They heard me talking and just knew I was from the South. They said it made them homesick.
Mostly spared from the destruction's of the French Revolution and the wars of 1870–1871, 1914–1918 and 1939–1945, the cityscape of old-town Colmar is homogeneous and renowned among tourists. An area that is crossed by canals of the river Lauch (which formerly served as the butcher's, tanner's and fishmonger's quarter) is now called "little Venice" (la Petite Venise). Colmar's cityscape (and neighbouring Riquewihr's) served for the design of the Japanese animated film Howl's Moving Castle.
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad
Today finds us in Colmar, France, another medieval town, largely preserved, the majority of its buildings still intact after these hundreds of years. It is also the home of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the designer of the Statue of Liberty. It took about 3 hours to get over here from Lindau. We traveled through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France to get here. I met a nice couple from the U.S. He was from West Virginia, she was from Pittsburgh. The are ex-pats, living in Basel, Switzerland. They heard me talking and just knew I was from the South. They said it made them homesick.
Mostly spared from the destruction's of the French Revolution and the wars of 1870–1871, 1914–1918 and 1939–1945, the cityscape of old-town Colmar is homogeneous and renowned among tourists. An area that is crossed by canals of the river Lauch (which formerly served as the butcher's, tanner's and fishmonger's quarter) is now called "little Venice" (la Petite Venise). Colmar's cityscape (and neighbouring Riquewihr's) served for the design of the Japanese animated film Howl's Moving Castle.
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| Launch River, runs through town |
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| Street Scene, Colmar |
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| Lady Liberty |
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| Colmar |
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| Colmar, on the river |
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| Launch River Bridge |
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| Flowers on the Launch River Bridge |
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| More flowere |
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| Linda & Amanda fed the Swans at our dinner table |
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| Monument to French wine |
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| Liberty at night |
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Alptitude Adjustment Day 12
Our Alptitude improved today. We have met so many nice people as we have been driving through Europe. They blow their horns at us and wave at us. We wave back, but we don't understand what they mean, because we don't speak the language. Harry has developed into a very accomplished European driver. When he wears his beret, he looks like a Frenchman.
We left Bellagio this am, crossed Lake Como, and took the scenic route through the Alps. We drove through 5 countries today. Italy, Switzerland, Lichenstein, Austria and Germany. I won't bore you with what the views are like, just look at the pictures. We arrived back in Germany and are in Lindau. We will leave tomorrow for Colmar, France for a couple of days.
We left Bellagio this am, crossed Lake Como, and took the scenic route through the Alps. We drove through 5 countries today. Italy, Switzerland, Lichenstein, Austria and Germany. I won't bore you with what the views are like, just look at the pictures. We arrived back in Germany and are in Lindau. We will leave tomorrow for Colmar, France for a couple of days.
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| Amanda & Harry, Lake Como |
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| Jerry & Linda, Lake Como |
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| We wasted 5 euros apiece riding this train |
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| Lack Como view at breakfast |
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| Crossing Lake Como |
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| Varenna, Italy |
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| Harry & Amanda @ 6500' |
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| We are 6500' also |
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| High in the Alps |
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| Alpine Lake |
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| Middle of the Alps |
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| Other side of the road |
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| Where Harry drives.... |
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