A very short (35 minute) train ride took us from Strasbourg to Colmar today, where their annual Christmas market opened on Nov 20, and will run daily through Christmas. Colmar is a beautiful, very well-preserved medieval town. It is ready for Christmas already on Nov 22, the main core already awash in Christmas décor, and the…

We locked up our Paris apartment on Friday and took the train to Strasbourg for the weekend. Originally, we had hoped to rent a car here and take a day trip to Freiburg, Germany, at the suggestion of a German engineer that D had met on a business trip in St. John’s, Newfoundland back in…