Playing Tour Guide

Well, the tour of Alsace continued over Wednesday and Thursday.  Wednesday was a visit to Strasbourg which included a boat tour of the city and lunch outside in a pretty little; oh yes, and a visit to the Mephisto store for me. I had saved the best of Alsace (at least in my opinion) for last so Thursday we drove along my favourite part of the wine road - from Itterswiller to Eguisheim.  Our time was limited so we only did a "drive-through" of Bergheim and Ribeauville, stopped for a walk and lunch in Riquewihr, skipped Kaysersburg, and finally visited Eguisheim which is often used in travel posters, before driving to Colmar for a brief visit to that scenic town.  In Eguisheim, it was a must to visit another of those famous Alsation vineyards, Freudenreich.  A bottle of their award-winning Riesling is less than €6!  It was fun as we drove along with Jeff "scoring" the houses and villages for their cuteness, most of them receiving scores over 7 and many getting an almost perfect 9.5!  We kept remarking how these little medieval villages look more like movie sets than real places. Thankfully, none of them were too crowded which made wandering around a pleasure. The lucky part was that we managed to finish our tour just as the dark clouds rolled in and the rain started pelting down. We did capture a unique rainbow on the drive back. I never knew rainbows could be horizontal!