When Jeff travelled to Texas for a work conference, I asked
around over here about a day trip while he was gone. My colleagues immediately
organized a tour of several towns on the western edge of France, not far from
where we are in Germany. We piled into one car together on Saturday morning,
and headed south to Soufflenheim. This village is known for its pottery, but I
did not buy any. It was very nice, but our kitchen here is so small that we
gave a away a bunch of things when we arrived, and anything new has to be truly
needed. We enjoyed a lovely, relaxing lunch as the town shut down from noon to
2 pm (we know all about that!). FYI, "limonade" is pretty much sprite.
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| The village of Riquewihr, France |
After lunch, we proceeded to Ribeauville, where a fortunate
wrong turn off the highway led us directly into the parking lot of a chocolate
factory outlet store! Gee whiz, it’s about time for a rest room break, and
might as well check out the chocolates while we are here. These folks have a
lot to learn from the Cailler factory in Switzerland, because we got ABSOLUTELY
NO free samples in the store in France, which made it harder to spend big bucks
on boxes of chocolates. We’d still recommend stopping at the Chocolaterie due
Vignoble Daniel Stoffel, as they did give everyone a free sample AFTER making a
purchase- literally on the way out the door, and that sample was GOOOOOOD! I
would have bought way more if they’d had the samples at the front door rather
than the exit.
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| Riquewihr |
The search for tablecloths for 2 office-mates
continued in the next town of Riquewihr, which was gorgeous but did not host
the famous table cloth store they were seeking. There were plenty of Maracons
(both kinds- coconut macaroons and French macaron cookies), pottery shops, and
textiles such as napkins, towels, and bolts of cloth. We strolled through
cobblestone streets with lovely architecture, and had a wonderful roll with an
ok bowl of soup. Too bad we were too full thereafter to partake of the luscious
pies at the café.
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| Sunset, soup and roll |
We had planned to continue driving south to Colmar, but that
will have to wait for the next time. It was getting late and we still had a 2
hour drive home. We drove right past Strasbourg, France- another place to
return to.
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