December 24th, 2007 
Sheila Simkin There are so many other activities in the Alsace region. Canoeing, all terrain bike tours, quad biking in additional to the hundreds of kilometers of bicycle tracks. There is also an old train “touristique,” The Ried Express…View image…that leaves from the restored train station (built in 1880) at Vogelsheim. This train goes to the San Souci pier where you board a boat for a 80-minute cruise on the Rhine with views of the Black Forest and 13th century Gothic Cathedral of Breisach. After that, the train takes you back to Vogelsheim.
There was still time for more walks through Riquewihr in the evening since the hotel didn’t serve dinner. We walked back into Riquewihr and up and down the little side streets before eating. One street had a little family owned winery with their bottling operation set up right there on the street. One person putting bottles on the conveyor line, bottles filled with wine, corks pushed in, someone else taking the bottles off and sticking them in cases. …View image…Interesting and hypnotizing.
And there was also time to visit some of the Vin Caves, to taste and buy …View image…all the different varieties of wines…
We’re starting to think that a perfect vacation in Alsace would be just eating and drinking the entire day. Forget walking, biking or any kind of exercise…there were temptations everywhere we turned… At long last, dinner where we tried the Baeckeoffe which was “okay”…filling…but just okay. A Pate for a starter, and huge chunk of Mirabelle Plum Tarte at the end made dinner a winner.
Tomorrow’s schedule would be a 6-9 mile walk from Riquewihr, through Ribeauville to Thannenkirch. This wouldn’t even make a teeny dent in the amount of calories we ate today. So sad….at 100+ calories per mile, I would need to walk 24-hours a day just to break even…
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