I’m on my third language in three weeks! Just as I’d got to grips with speaking French without peppering it with Italiano, we crossed the Rhine in Strasbourg and entered Germany. On our radar were the historic cities of Würzburg and Bamberg, which were recommendations from our last trip to Germany.
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Haut Koenigsberg Castle & Kaysersburg, Alsace, France
In a thoroughly modern way, one of the tourist brochures for Alsace featured a list of ‘Spots Instagrammables’. The Château de Haut Koenigsberg was Number 1.
Alternative Alsace: A Walk Through History on ‘The Mountain of Death’ – Hartmannswillerkopf, Alsace, France
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana Alsace is best known for it’s wine route, castles and fairy tale villages. However, 956.5m (3,136 ft) above the Alsace plain, at Hartsmannswillerkopf, or HWK as it is known, you will find an extraordinary relic of WWI.
Of Mice & Men – Éguisheim, Alsace, France
“For breakfast, they have a massive bowl of coffee, like a cereal bowl, and they dip in pieces of a huge, bell-shaped cake, called Kugelhopf!” These were the awed observations of cultural differences, relayed to my parents, following my first ever trip abroad. Aged 14, I had been on a school exchange to Alsace toContinue reading “Of Mice & Men – Éguisheim, Alsace, France”
World Wide Walkies 