Floating along in Colmar, France

Colmar is a medieval village with so many canals that it’s been

Canals in 'Little Venice'

nicknamed ‘Little Venice’. It’s filled with half-timbered houses, diminutive winding lanes, and cute little shops. We spent several hours wandering the streets after getting a really good tour of the town. We wondered why the Statue of Liberty welcomed us to town until we found that its designer, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, lived here. It’s a pretty town and I’d have been happy spending substantially more time exploring.

Odds and Ends

Tower Bridge

There are always odd and unrelated occurrences on trips. This blog is composed of images that I didn’t fit in anywhere else. For instance, we saw the Tower Bridge and once again did not make the stroll across. We did, however, walk across the new Millennium Bridge from the Tate Gallery of Modern Art to St. Paul’s Cathedral.