Saturday 18 June
Breakfast this morning was wonderful. Andreas and Rahel sell their milk to a local guy who makes cheese, butter and yoghurt and then Rahel then buys some of it back for her use. The yoghurt and cheese were sensational and the butter had been pressed so it had a little pattern on the top of it. Really fresh, beautiful produce.
Derek had already been up and out to talk to Andreas and I think he was a little bit disappointed that he had slept too late and missed seeing the cows being milked. In retrospect, it would have been lovely to stay there for a longer period of time and if we are ever back in this part of the world again, we would try and book in here again.
So it was a bit sad to wave the family goodbye and head towards Colmar. Luckily for us, once on the highway, Colmar is quite well signposted so we didn't get lost once. It is only a couple of hours drive so it was an easy distance today.
Once in the main street, we decided just to park the car and find the hotel on foot. Hotel Le Marechal claims that the buildings it now inhabits were built in 1565 although it has only been running as a hotel for 30 years. It is built on the edge of a very picturesque canal which winds its way through the town and in fact, the town is colloquially known as Little Venice.
Our room is very small but does have a small private balcony with outdoor table and 2 chairs however it is still raining so it may not get much use.
We spent this afternoon exploring the old town. It has a cobbled pedestrian precinct and is extremely picturesque - we never actually went the newer commercial centre of Colmar as there was so much to see in the older part. One thing we did buy today was a new GPS as ours still isn't working and it is just way too difficult to try and navigate without one.
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Breakfast this morning was wonderful. Andreas and Rahel sell their milk to a local guy who makes cheese, butter and yoghurt and then Rahel then buys some of it back for her use. The yoghurt and cheese were sensational and the butter had been pressed so it had a little pattern on the top of it. Really fresh, beautiful produce.
Derek had already been up and out to talk to Andreas and I think he was a little bit disappointed that he had slept too late and missed seeing the cows being milked. In retrospect, it would have been lovely to stay there for a longer period of time and if we are ever back in this part of the world again, we would try and book in here again.
So it was a bit sad to wave the family goodbye and head towards Colmar. Luckily for us, once on the highway, Colmar is quite well signposted so we didn't get lost once. It is only a couple of hours drive so it was an easy distance today.
Once in the main street, we decided just to park the car and find the hotel on foot. Hotel Le Marechal claims that the buildings it now inhabits were built in 1565 although it has only been running as a hotel for 30 years. It is built on the edge of a very picturesque canal which winds its way through the town and in fact, the town is colloquially known as Little Venice.
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Our room is very small but does have a small private balcony with outdoor table and 2 chairs however it is still raining so it may not get much use.
We spent this afternoon exploring the old town. It has a cobbled pedestrian precinct and is extremely picturesque - we never actually went the newer commercial centre of Colmar as there was so much to see in the older part. One thing we did buy today was a new GPS as ours still isn't working and it is just way too difficult to try and navigate without one.
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