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What a lovely cathedral. This town has many beautiful flowers about. The tile roof is amazing, I guess the weather there never gets to strong. With all the storks, makes you wonder if there are many babies in the town!!:
Beautiful place! I adore that style of architecture; it always makes me think of fairy tales. We had a neighbor that grew up in the Alsace region and was a child during the Nazi occupation. She spoke lovingly of her homeland and I can now see why.
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What a lovely cathedral. This town has many beautiful flowers about. The tile roof is amazing, I guess the weather there never gets to strong.
Maybe not. We visited Beaune, which is a couple of hours' away to the west, on our last road trip down to Switzerland, and that's got a building with a very similar roof, so maybe that part of France is protected from the worst of the winds.
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With all the storks, makes you wonder if there are many babies in the town!!:
Beautiful place! I adore that style of architecture; it always makes me think of fairy tales. We had a neighbor that grew up in the Alsace region and was a child during the Nazi occupation. She spoke lovingly of her homeland and I can now see why.
Finally, we were approaching the river, and it was just as lovely here as I thought it would be from Dave’s (SuperDave) photos. His trip report on France is what inspired me to stop off here, so a huge to him for sharing that with us, otherwise we may not have made it here, and that would’ve been a huge shame had we missed it.
We walked a little way down the river, and I saw some very familiar scenes from Dave’s trip report.
We headed inside to explore the indoor market, although there wasn’t much we could buy in there, at least not without a fridge near to hand anyway. It was a lovely place though.
It was interesting to see the use of the different languages in here. Despite the fact that Colmar is in France, in many places in the town, it’s pretty bilingual. We saw signs in the car park, and the market, as well as here, in both German and French. Again, it’s odd, as the French really protect their language, so much so that they passed a law a number of years ago, which restricted the amount of British language songs that could be played on French radio stations. We were also once told by a Member of the European Parliament, who I got to know when I was a journalist, that the European Union always speak English, but whenever anyone important turns up from France, they start to use French as well, as French is still an official language. However, most of the time, no-one uses it.
From there, we meandered our way back towards the car park, taking a slightly different route, so that we could see more of Colmar. Everywhere we went, we were presented with more stunning historical buildings. This is definitely a place well worth a visit.
This is what the crowd in the previous photo were watching… One of the stork nests
When we got back to the patisserie, in we went to get stocked up on macaroons. I bought two packets of different flavours…
By the way, one of the packets was consumed a few minutes after we got back to the car.
Mark picked out a few other macaroons from the counter display that he liked the look of…
The only problem we had was waiting for the credit card to go through. I think it took about three attempts, which would have been fine, except it was absolutely cooking in there, as they had the oven on. I was so glad to get back outside. All the way back up from the river, we’d been commenting on how warm and humid it was getting outside. It had been very pleasant when we arrived, but not so much now. It’s probably just as well we were heading back to the car and its climate control.
We had to fill up the car, and fortunately found a garage not too far away to get that done. My little girl had done 449 miles since I filled her up yesterday lunchtime. My goodness, that already feels like a long time ago.
Beautiful shots of the town and canal. I can really see spending a couple of days there just wandering around and sitting in cafes! The macaroons look SO good!
Colmar is beautiful, but I especially like the river area. I did recognize some of the spots from Dave's photos. Glad you all were able to stock up on macaroons, sort of.
I'm still blown away by this picturesque little town. So gorgeous!
Oh, that bakery. How does one choose only a few things? I don't blame you for eating the whole package in the car!! I would have done the same thing.
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If it was do-able, I'd pop over there and get him. That was such a bad decision. 
to him for sharing that with us, otherwise we may not have made it here, and that would’ve been a huge shame had we missed it. 
It’s probably just as well we were heading back to the car and its climate control. 
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