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, […]
Europe
The Nein Rhine River Cruise
Last October for our 25th wedding anniversary we took a river cruise on the Danube through Germany, Austria and Hungary. We really liked the experience and decided to do the Rhine this year. Unfortunately heat and drought depleted the river to record lows and turned the trip into a little bit of a bust with […]
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 […]
Four days in Wengen, Switzerland
If you’ve ever seen a postcard of the Swiss Alps, there’s a good chance it was taken somewhere near Wengen. This little car-free village sits on a shelf high above the Lauterbrunnen Valley, and the only way up is by cog railway. We spent four days there and I’m pretty sure I took a photo […]