Tuesday 16 August 2011

A trip to Colmar and Dinner in Ribeauvillé

We decided to visit Colmar today as we were a  bit late getting up after a late return from Freiburg.  Colmar is the capital of the Haute Rhine département and quite a pretty place.  It includes the famous Unter Linden museum which we enjoyed visiting.  It includes the famous Issenheim Altarpiece as well as lots of other interesting art and historical objects from Colmar.

We enjoyed walking around Colmar and also visited the collegiate church of St. Martin.  We also visited the protestant church and the dominican church.  We saw a lovely covered market where I sampled some of the local Quiche Lorraine.

We came back to the campsite around 7pm and then walked into Ribeauvillé where we had a fairly traditional Alsatian dinner - Gordon had a local dish, choucroute with various sausages, which looked to me very like German Sauerkraut and Wurst!

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