All right. So I'm here in Strasburg, spent a couple of days here so far.
I've always wanted to see the city of Colmar so I'm taking a train
from the main Strasburg train station to Colmar, which is only a 35 or so minute train direct on a
regional train. You can also take the TGV, which is 25 minutes, but you need seat reservations.
So I'm going to go down there and
check out the picture esque use that a Colmar has to offer quieter, quainter a small-town France.
All right, maybe quick 35 minute train in to Colmar. So here we are. We're walking through
the shops to Mars to get to to old town. And then from old town, we'll take you
through a little bit of a tour of Late petite Venice, where you see all the Instagrammable
images and just the quaint, a small town with with boats and canals and that traditional sort of
small town, French homes and and restaurants so fall along or headed to the city.
I think we have about a 10 minute walk from the train station rolled through. But overall from
the train station, it's about a 15 minute walk and total. So 1.1 kilometers to get to the main square
Colmar is actually known as the capital of Alsace wine.
All right. This is a fountain, which is a historic fountain in the middle of this nice square here.
And basically I started the canal
but this fountain was largely rebuilt after world war II and features general Lozar. At the top
and plenty of like amazing, plenty of amazing restaurants up and down the street.
And we'll continue down this street towards little Venice and making several stops along the way.
Hello, there, the city has these little pointers with the Statue of Liberty.
Actually the creator was actually born here and Colmar and walking up is a market covert Colmar,
which is an awesome middle market. And then it points you in the right direction though, here in.
You get up and test started the scenic photos that you've treated.
On Instagram and whatever, but this is basically a little Venice
and we'll walk, we'll continue walking through here.
All right. So the market right here on the canal was built in 1865, largely just produce market.
I'm gonna see if I can go in there and grab a sandwich for lunch after doing the trains.
And I'll show you some footage of what the market is like,
and we'll figure out if it's worth it to spend time in or not.
so we're actually visiting a Colmar on a Sunday. Prior than usual. And then within the market,
a lot of stuff's closed, but there's something that I can find here.
Pretty cool market, a lot of good, fresh produce it's regions known for excellent wine and
fresh produce local locally sourced foods and excellent restaurants.
Okay. Just add some lunch, walking through
old town, calmer heading back to the train station after just a short trip down here.
All right, made it back to the train station guard to Colmar overall,
I would say that this is an excellent day trip. It was a Sunday, so we didn't have
a ton of time. Some things were closed. So it was a quick trip. Definitely we'll be back.
We're going to take a about a 30, another 35 minute train.
We took an earlier train about an hour earlier. It'd be sub 30 minutes. With only one stop,
the one that we're taking will have. About two stomps again, and about the same time.
But just an easy, quick trip from Strasbourg which the city actually surprised me in terms of the
main, like little Venice area, a ton of good restaurants, even more than like I thought there's
basically Michelin star restaurants, everywhere, excellent wine, and even really good shopping.
Definitely we'll be back for a longer stay at some point in time.
Very quiet though. Really good place to just wine and dine and slow down time.
And to get there from Strasburg. It's very cheap. I'm using my EU rail pass, but if you
didn't have a ye rail pass, you can sub for sub $10 or 10 us dollars or.
Seven to eight euros for a one-way ticket is definitely worth the price to jet down here from
Strasburg, or even make it up from Basel, Switzerland, if you can. .