JerrysJourneys

This is the final post for this blog.  We are at the airport and will be headed home There are many tours.  Harry & I wanted to share our beer tour with you. shortly.

Today we traveled into the foothills of the desVoges Mountains and visited 6 medieval villages along the wine route.  Towns we visited were Kintzheim, Kayersberg, Riquewihr, Ribeauville, Truckheim, and Eguisheim.  If you ever come over here, we recommend this location as a destination. Harry continued to drive us around Europe.  His driving skills are equal to the Europeans.  Having said that, we did have a slight, shall I say faux paux incident.  We pulled up to a red light and while we were discussing if we were supposed to stop or go, someone behind us blew their horn.  We assumed we were supposed to go, so we went.  Harry ran the red light.  All the other cars were still stopped.  Thankfully, we did not have another encounter with the Polizi. We just hope there was not a camera at that intersection. While walking through Kayersberg, I saw a man with an LSU shirt  sitting with a group of people.  I stopped and asked if they were from Louisiana.  Everyone started talking in French.  ...

Our European Odyssey continues, but it is fast heading for its conclusion.  Two more days and we are headed home...  a great adventure. Today finds us in Colmar, France, another medieval town, largely preserved, the majority of its buildings still intact after these hundreds of years.  It is also the home of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the designer of the Statue of Liberty. It took about 3 hours to get over here from Lindau.  We traveled through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France to get here.  I met a nice couple from the U.S. He was from West Virginia, she was from Pittsburgh.  The are ex-pats, living in Basel, Switzerland.  They heard me talking and just knew I was from the South.  They said it made them homesick. Mostly spared from the destruction's of the French Revolution and the wars of 1870–1871 , 1914–1918 and 1939–1945 , the cityscape of old-town Colmar is homogeneous and renowned among tourists. An area that is crossed by canals of the river Lauch (which formerly...

Our Alptitude improved today.   We have met so many nice people as we have been driving through Europe.  They blow their horns at us and wave at us.  We wave back, but we don't understand what they mean, because we don't speak the language.  Harry has developed into a very accomplished European driver.  When he wears his beret, he looks like a Frenchman. We left Bellagio this am, crossed Lake Como, and took the scenic route through the Alps.  We drove through 5 countries today.  Italy, Switzerland, Lichenstein, Austria and Germany.  I won't bore you with what the views are like, just look at the pictures.  We arrived back in Germany and are in Lindau.  We will leave tomorrow for Colmar, France for a couple of days. Amanda & Harry, Lake Como Jerry & Linda, Lake Como We wasted 5 euros apiece riding this train Lack Como view at breakfast Crossing Lake Como Varenna, Italy  Harry & Amanda @ 6500' We are 6500' also High in the Alps Alpine Lake Middle...