No, I did not buy a drone but I could not pass up this picture. It shows the walled city of Eguisheim. the walls were built to protect the city until the 1500's when the great conflicts had ended and the external ramparts were lowered to allow buildings to be build against the walls. As it is currently, it is a series of concentric streets centered on the church. Each street is a standard 3/4 lane wide, for the big street and for the small streets, no cars could drive through. It was so very charming. The storks have a special status in the Alsace region. They are viewed as harbingers of good luck, fertility, faithfulness and happiness. So we have seen stuffed storks, stork nests, stork shirts and so on. There has been a concentrated effort to protect them and promote their breeding. They have build nesting boxes and now have storks that stay in the region year round. We got lunch in Eguisheim at a small but lovely family run restaurant. Then we went to taste some wine at the Paul Ginglinger Winery. Yum!
Two stork nests
This is one of the few open squares in the town
The signs are so creative
Side by side churches
Great balls of cork
Another very cool sign
A street on the small side
The blue avenger going into the church
Stained glass above the church entrance
What a ornate chappel
Very fine stained glass
I really like the green colors
Overflowing flower boxes continue
The three storks
Nancy likes this restaurant
The Paul G winery
A four foot tall wooden screw
the local terroir
A 3-D map of all the towns along the edge of the mountains. Colmar sits in a valley carved out by the Rhine river
No one was manning the tasting bar when we arrived but in five minutes we were slurping Pino Nior and Riesling wine
Paul G's logo
A beautiful carvesd wooden door that was all of 4.5 feet tall at the tallest point
The winery that was our last taste of Eguisheim
Our wanderings as captured by my phone. It saves us from getting lost.
