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Strasbourg to Colmar was easy. Here are some photos.
Koenigsbourg Castle – Castles everywhere in the hills – I suppose reflective of Alsace’s shared ownership by variously Germany and France over the years. French by office, German by name.
This is of her, of course. Colmar is the home of Bertholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty.
Well, we got to Colmar, again with Google Maps, and found our way to the camp ground. I was quickly finding that English was pretty widespread at least on the tourist trail.
It was warm and a tiny bit less muggy in Colmar and we really needed a ride so we headed into town and as luck would have it, found our way onto the tour route.
I really dig Colmar, it’s apparently the Venice of France (not so much, to be honest).
Anyway, we spun through a VERY confusing centre ville, found some railing, and off we went. The streets were eerily quiet.
On the road to Munster.
We took some backroads until we got to a very, very busy road. Cyclists seem to co-exist in absolute peace with motorists here – complete opposite to Australia, where motorists are so, so harried and angry (people seem a lot more self-absorbed and unhappy in Aus) and impatient.
Anyway, we spun around toward Munster and came back along a ninja bike path – cyclists everywhere.
Me.
The route heading back into Colmar.
Big long finishing strait.
Twilight.
The finish into Colmar is pretty tricky and technical if they had expected a sprint (Heinrich Haussler ended up winning in the rain) – switch backs off downhills and pretty tight railing would make it interesting.
The roads are pretty good, very, VERY cycling friendly. A few hills if you want to go looking, and some nice-ish scenery.
We did find a hill to climb on the way home, then we got lost coming back (iPhone saved us again). I think we just baguetted up for dinner, had a Heineken then hit the hay as tomorrow we had to be up and on the road very early to get a spot on the last Col for Stage 13, the Col du Firstplan.
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