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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace: Dijon, Wednesday October 15
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace. September 26 – October 17, 2014. Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Dijon, Wednesday October 15. Lots of walking around Dijon today, remembering how it used to be, seeing what’s still the same and what’s changed. And eating good food. First, this scene of a morning delivery to our hotel. Ah, the clatter of small wheels on ancient cobblestones. Bruce stayed at the fancy hotel in the background on his first trip to Dijon, before we discovered the Hotel du Sauvage. Sounds nicely me...
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace: October 2014
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace. September 26 – October 17, 2014. Monday, October 27, 2014. Our trip to Alsace, and other places. We wrote the blog daily as the trip progressed, so it’s arranged here in reverse chronological order. To read it in the customary beginning to end order, click here. Come share our trip with us! Plaques commemorating WW II liberation · French Pharmacies · Waldteufel. Although we’ve titled the blog Alsace Trip, there really were four distinct phases, of which Alsace was in...
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace: Impressions
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace. September 26 – October 17, 2014. Monday, October 27, 2014. As always when we visit a place where we’ve been before, there will be a lot of compare and contrast. Add to this the fact that we’ve been around a good bit longer, had lots of other experiences along the way, and easily could find ourselves tuning in on different aspects of things than we had on earlier visits to the same area. Plaques commemorating WW II liberation · French Pharmacies · Waldteufel. We got to know...
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace: Strasbourg, Wednesday October 8
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace. September 26 – October 17, 2014. Thursday, October 9, 2014. Strasbourg, Wednesday October 8. Strange mixes of people and mythical animals. My kingdom for the other half of my horse! We had plenty of time before the noon meeting, so we walked around the cathedral area for a while and then settled in at the nearby Maison Naegel. Also tempting was this display of bretzels. At a shop across the street. Below is her quick sketch in markers of the Maison Kammerzell. 1427 AD....
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace: Colmar, Friday October 10
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace. September 26 – October 17, 2014. Saturday, October 11, 2014. Colmar, Friday October 10. It was an overcast day, but showing signs of brightening. Today’s destination is Colmar, a pretty large city to the south of here. But first a few scenes along the way. This scene just south of Bergheim caught our eyes, and we pulled over to the side of the road to capture it. He is probably better known for the The Skaters Waltz. How do I know all this? The town really does need to do ...
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace: Freiburg, Monday October 13
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace. September 26 – October 17, 2014. Monday, October 13, 2014. Freiburg, Monday October 13. We’re catching the blog right up to today. It’s another relatively short one, and tomorrow is moving day for us so we don’t know how much time we’re going to have available then, or what the Internet facilities might be at our next stop. On the French side, and the Schwartzwald. Freiburg was indeed a nice place. We parked in the lowest level of a subterranean garage, checked our ori...
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace: Strasbourg, Saturday October 4
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace. September 26 – October 17, 2014. Sunday, October 5, 2014. Strasbourg, Saturday October 4. It was a fast, nonstop trip in to the big city. And we expect that there will be some Alsace images there after she gets back home. Not knowing the train schedules, we intentionally got to Strasbourg early and used the time for a second very tasty breakfast and a bit of wandering in the center of town. Here’s the layout of the whole place. Breakfast, Part II. Means doggie, net. One of...
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace: Dijon, Tuesday October 14
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace. September 26 – October 17, 2014. Tuesday, October 14, 2014. Dijon, Tuesday October 14. After two wonderful weeks in Bergheim, Alsace, we checked out of our Untours rental house, said au revoir. To our friendly host, and hit the road heading south. It was a gorgeous day, with warm temperature and blue skies. Traffic was light, and the drive was easy. Then a right turn near Mulhouse, and we were on our way west to Dijon. Which was really a fact back then. A few pictures as w...
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace: Bergheim, Thursday October 9
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace. September 26 – October 17, 2014. Friday, October 10, 2014. Bergheim, Thursday October 9. Sue Anne's major project for the day was to capture lots of the inscriptions over the entryways to houses here in town. Most contained either a graphic representation of the occupant’s trade or an indication of the year in which the house was built. Or both. Some almost looked like hieroglyphics. Above is a tower in Bergheim along the inner town walls. Across the former moat, all g...
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace: Bergheim, Monday October 6
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The Bottomleys’ Trip to Alsace. September 26 – October 17, 2014. Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Bergheim, Monday October 6. Note the gray French sky. The bright blue of the past week sure struck us as atypical. But lovely. The ornate building in the background is the Hotel de Ville, the town hall. We thought an enlargement of the figures would add to the visual story too. This wasn’t our initial view of town, but it seems like a good representation of the entry way to our visit. The mechanized device at the r...
