Hostellerie Le Maréchal – Smtfhw's Travels

Food 2019 – Alsace and Baden, Day 8, La Maison Rouge, Colmar

Friday, 20th September 2019 – La Maison Rouge, Colmar This is now a slightly cautionary tale. Because the guy on the front desk at the hotel when we checked in insisted that we had dinner included for all three nights, despite me saying we didn’t, I believed him in the end, and cancelled a reservation…

Food 2019 – Alsace and Baden, Days 6 and 7, Restaurant a l’Echevin, Colmar

Wednesday, 18th September/Thursday, 19th September 2019 – Restaurant a l’Echevin, Colmar As part of the deal at the Hostellerie Le Maréchal we had two night’s dinners included (not three, no matter what the young man on reception when we checked in insisted) and although you never know what you might get when it comes to…

Travel 2019 – Alsace and Baden, Day 7, Voegtlinshoffen, Colmar

Thursday, 19th September 2019 – Voegtlinshoffen, Colmar Voegtlinshoffen is a tiny village which is not one of the half-timbered confections that so many Alsace villages are, because most of those were destroyed in the course of the Thirty Years’ War and rebuilt afterwards in a more simple style. What is does have is a site…

Travel 2019 – Alsace and Baden, Day 6, Illkirchen, Orschwiller, Colmar

Wednesday, 17th September 2019 – Illkirchen, Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg, Colmar Wednesday morning, with even more insect bites decorating both of us, we got ready to check out and move on. I’d been for a run before breakfast and stopped off at the rather odd park near one of the tram stops. For reasons I couldn’t…