Saturday, May 26, 2013
I was in the fitness room on board this morning (it's a couple of feet above water level), running on the treadmill, when I looked out the floor length window to see a large swan lazily floating by - kind of a surreal moment. There are a lot of swans here and they swim by the boat hoping for someone to throw them pieces of bread. Not that we've done that, of course. ;-)
We went to Colmar, France today. We were able to spend about 4-5 hours there as the boat will remain docked here in Breisach instead of going to Basel. Colmar has a lot of great buildings, very interesting architecturally, from Renaissance to half- timbered and everything in between. It is the home of the sculptor Bartholdi who designed our Statue of Liberty, and also Albert Schweitzer. This city also has canals and storks, like Strasbourg. They are proud of being French though Colmar has been "acquired" by Germany more than once in the past.
This is our last night on the boat, so we enjoyed a farewell dinner and made sure we had our favorite waiter, Carlos, who is from Portugal. We have met several nice couples on this trip - some Americans, an Australian couple, and a couple from Wales, all of whom were interesting and fun to talk to. It's been a good cruise but we're ready to get going on our own now.
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