Last stop on our Alsace tour: Mulhouse. Mulhouse differs quite a bit from Strasbourg and Colmar: it’s an industrial city that is having a hard time keeping its industrial base. It doesn’t have many beautiful and historic buildings nor beautiful parks. The street on which our hotel was located was a bit gritty. But! Mulhouse has a couple amazing museums,...
(Full post)We each have a French Pass Sanitaire! Whenever we go into a restaurant or enclosed venue - think museums - with lots of people, we have to show our vaccination records. The French all have a QR code on their smartphones that the restaurant or venue staff check with an app - it shows that they have been vaccinated. This...
(Full post)Colmar was next up on our itinerary. It’s not far from Strasbourg, smaller by quite a bit (around 75,000 compared to Strasbourg’s 470,000) and definitely oriented more toward tourism. The city has many beautiful and interesting buildings, built in the half-timbered style common in much of Germany, and an excellent museum. It’s also got a lot of tourists. We also...
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