Colmar, France was listed on our river cruise as an optional tour. This small town in the Alsace region near Germany and Switzerland looked interesting, so we decided to stay a few days before our cruise started in nearby Basel. Our Airbnb loft apartment, according to Google, was a 20-minute walk from the train station, […]
France
Beaune, Burgundy, France
Beaune was kind of a last-minute addition to our Europe trip. Really glad we came to this medieval walled city and got to pedal out to the vineyards and villages. A circular walled city Beaune is one of the few towns in France that still has nearly its entire ring of medieval walls. The ramparts […]
Five days in Paris
“…wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” — Ernest Hemingway We ended our Rhine river cruise in Amsterdam and took the high-speed Eurostar train to Paris. We opted for first class and got a pretty good dinner with a nice hazy IPA served […]